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[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | I stared at the man. His grizzled features only made his eyes more striking - this man had seen some shit. I felt myself shaking.
"What the hell was that?" I blurted out, looking at the remains of my wallet. There was a thick, purplish ooze bleeding out of the leather. Teeth lined the edges.
“Better if you don’t kno... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-12T23:56:21 | 223 | 82 |
[WP] As a Christian, the news that God had revealed his presence to the world made you ecstatic. However, you noticed that many of the priests at your church were horrified to hear about the news. | “I think the Norse were the first to figure out who truly had descended upon the world.
To us, a man radiating bright light, a god of light and purity, must have been the god of our faith. He had no holes in his hands, but we didn’t mind. He was blond, unlike the many depictions of our god, but we didn’t mind. He mig... | '-And that is all for today children of god. May the lord be with you. Amen.'
'Amen.'
The choir emitted by the faithful was astoundingly loud today. My church has always been closer to a chapel, since on a good day we would frequent 20 people during the service.
Things have changed now. God materialized above th... | 2021-10-30T09:58:35 | 2021-10-30T09:35:11 | 613 | 376 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I used to like my room. It seemed like a bubble. Whenever there was stress, or worries, or anything else I would simply shut the door and pretend nothing existed outside of these 4 walls.
The first time I noticed something was wrong was when I went to go get my tortoise some lettuce for dinner. My door wouldn't open.... | The mouse idea didn't work. I knew it was another troll, but I can't just sit here doing nothing, can I... Can I? No, no, I have to keep trying before I run out of air. I mean logically it makes no sense, putting the mouse inside my anus has no possible relation to the phenomena effecting my doors and windows, but *non... | 2016-01-31T12:52:58 | 2016-01-31T10:29:29 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had a wife and two kids. It was a summer day, a Wednesday -- the morning cool hadn't left yet, but I was already feeling lazy.
I hadn't planned it, but I surprised them by packing for a picnic. I even packed a box of ice-cream, and the kids were so shocked and pleased, as if it was the best thing in the world -- lik... | Part 1: Part 2 is a reply to this comment.
I recieved an email today. It was from a Psycologist, Dr. McGill, asking for participants for a study. It didn't say what the study was about, but it promised at least 5,000$ in pay afterword, and an extra 1,000$ for every extra hour it took over the estimated 2 hours. I had ... | 2015-03-09T07:41:40 | 2015-03-09T07:32:53 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] "Please remember, TSA rules prohibit bottles of liquid over three ounces, knife blades over two inches, and the use of spells, curses, scrolls or other magic beyond the security checkpoint." | TSA Guard Extended Guidelines
1) Maintain an orderly queue at all times.
2) Maintain your composure in front of passengers at all times, especially during a crisis.
3) Your standard taser and entrapment spells should only be used in a true emergency.
3.1) A person shouting swear words is not an emergency unles... | Nathan shouldered his worn leather backpack and waited patiently in the line. The security checkpoint was moving glacially slow, as usual, these damn lines were the worst part about traveling.
"Laptops, shoes, cellphones, wands, spell books, they all have to go in the bin and on the conveyor belt," the grumpy TSA a... | 2016-07-08T06:53:20 | 2016-07-08T06:12:00 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] The Sword would make him a great warrior, but if he didn't live honorably, it would fail him when he needed it most. Now he prays on the eve of every battle that this isn't the time he'll need the Sword most. | The hordes of soldiers ran by, adrenaline coursing through their veins. It coursed through mine too. This was one of the many things that connected us.
I had prayed yesterday, prayed this morning too; to no god but rather to the blade in my grasp. Prayed it would bring me strength and calm in my battles today. Prayed ... | It is a strange life to live. Out on the fringes of what society can be found in these wild lands. No one can be relied on outside the walls of the settlements. No one would risk their necks for any individual caught in some nightmare just out of eyesight of the guards. A strange living in a strange land.
Nothing mor... | 2022-08-10T19:52:16 | 2022-08-10T18:32:11 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You are reading stories about an asylum in the early 1900s and realize that one of the patients with "time traveler syndrome" is actually you. | Collette stared at the computer with a blank expression, if there was one thing she hated it was research papers.
*Fine, I know they said not to use Wikipedia, but google scholar is bound to get something.*
She glanced down at her notebook where she had scribbled down “time traveler syndrome”
“I hate abnormal Psych”... | >Psychological profile of patient #561 Vladevski Dastovsky.
*This was it.* he thought, blowing the dust off the decennial documents. He was sitting inside an abandoned warehouse, light shining through small cracks in the cement walls. A droplet of sweat fell from his forehead, landing on the ragged piece of paper.
... | 2016-05-10T15:27:54 | 2016-05-10T14:29:21 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | [**I'm aware that this prompt has been done multiple times, but I only started posting recently and so I'll try to take a stab at it. Hopefully this will be a slightly different flavor.**]
*He doesn't look like much.* That was the first thought in Volair's mind as the human representative, Adam, entered the council ro... | [Poem]
Every insult.
Every smack.
We've endured.
Upon our backs.
With words of peace,
and tolerance.
No longer are they,
our best defense
They've done it now,
they've worn us thin!
Thinking they,
could chain us in!
And thin veiled threats,
now made brash.
They see what happens,
When our façade...
Cracks
Start the... | 2019-11-24T10:35:39 | 2019-11-24T10:09:51 | 5,960 | 494 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Have you ever tasted mahogany?'Cause I have. It tastes exactly how you'd imagine it. You see, I turned 16 a couple of months ago. And, as you know, 16 is the age of the Table. I'd thought about it for so long...My Mom chose a cup of ice cold water, and everytime Dad pisses her off, the house freezes over. I ain't going... | The Arbiter was looked tired of our shit. Me and my friend, Melty still hadn't decided much to the annoyance of literally everyone else.
"C'mon guys, just pick one!" yelled Clarissa, shooting a blank at us with a finger gun. One more reason to hate licorice bullets, I suppose.
"Kids, there isn't a time limit here b... | 2020-03-19T12:34:09 | 2020-03-19T10:47:29 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Every way to die works like Chicken Pox: If you get it once and survive, it can never happen to you again. | "Is it gonna hurt mommy?" And I said to her "Yes" as honesty is the best policy. The line inched forward, and my daughter and I moved with it. "What happened on your immunization day?" My daughter asked.
"Well, back in my day, we didn't have to go through as much, it was still painful, but you kids have it rough." I f... | It was the boy's 5th birthday party.
But there weren't any children there.
The week before, he'd asked his parents "Can I have my birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheez's?".
"Sorry, we're gonna have to have it here at home."
"Well how many of my friends can I invite?"
"Sorry tiger, it's gonna have to be family only."
T... | 2015-11-12T12:09:03 | 2015-11-12T11:54:30 | 154 | 45 |
[WP] You can rewind time at will, but only a couple minutes at a time. Everyone around you believes you are an expert at everything, in reality you use your power to correct every mistake. | It can be hard to imagine, because of human design, that by a small margin you can control the time.
I would love, my dear reader, to teach you to control, but only the creator knows the special word. Even if I wrote it, I would have to write again, even if I told it, I would have to tell again. So behold! my dear rea... | Jim was the best, ever, period. He made sure everyone knew it, too. Any time there was a writing assignment during class, he’d stalk from desk to desk, paper to paper, until he found what he was looking for. With a few slashes and strokes of his red pen, he’d write in spelling, grammar, and punctuation suggestions as t... | 2018-03-30T21:13:08 | 2018-03-30T20:49:45 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] Every day when you return home from work, your dog greets you by bringing you a seemingly random item, which will turn out to be useful throughout the day. One day, after a peticularly stressful day of work, your dog greets you with a sword at his feet, happily wagging his tail. | "Baxter! Here boy! Daddy's home!"
An enormous bark echoed through the house as my huge Tibetan Mastiff lumbered into the living room from the bedroom hallway. The black shaggy dog was a massive specimen of his species, easily four feet at the shoulder. I had to buy a bigger house just so he'd have enough room to run a... | I have a Pomeranian, his name is Rix. He's too cute, like the type of cuteness which makes you go "Awww". Rix is smart too, but not just the fetch-a-ball kind of smart, na. He's almost a clairvoyant. You see, he has a peculiar habit of bringing random stuff to me whenever I come back home from work. But every other dog... | 2019-12-31T16:36:30 | 2019-12-31T14:49:19 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Soul mate's exist. One day while showering, you're teleported in a cloud of smoke to another world. You appear before a dark queen who declares her spell worked and you, her soulmate, is finally here | All in all, I wasn’t too fond of the whole ‘soulmate’ thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I was of course happy for anyone who had found their Perfect Person™, but I was introduced to the moral discussion of it at a way too young age and it kind of shaped the way I felt about things. Not enough to get involved with any of the... | Case got into the shower and blasted himself with ice cold water, trying to force his brain into waking up for the big day ahead. It was around seven AM, he wasn’t in any particular rush, yet he felt a little bit anxious, as is to be expected.
“Barber at nine, flowers at ten, and ceremony at twelve,” Case recited to h... | 2019-04-28T07:10:32 | 2019-04-28T07:09:57 | 166 | 12 |
[WP] Spaghetti is now illegal.
[deleted] | As the law passed, they never thought of specifying what type of spaghetti is illegal.
If it was about the food, fixing this was easy. They just removed spaghetti from all the stores and stopped the production.
For me, however, my job became the most dangerous -- yet important -- job in the world. At least, that is h... | Karen gasped. ''Is this for real?''
''I'm afraid so.''
''But...why?''
''Enough wealthy donors supported it.''
''On what grounds?''
Lindy sighed. ''Religious grounds.''
''You don't mean-''
''I do.''
''The Flying Spaghetti Monster?!''
''The church has rapidly gained followers over the past years. I guess the est... | 2018-03-19T15:17:56 | 2018-03-19T14:57:45 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] You've always carried the subtle, lingering fear that someone could read your mind while you were in public, but you had always written it off as a silly form of social anxiety. That is, until you spotted someone on the subway home lip-syncing the song stuck in your head. | Laugh at me all you want but I believe that psychics exists. I know one when I see one, and I'm pretty fucking sure I've seen plenty.
I look up at the phony subway ads placed blatantly in the public for all eyes to see.
'*Psychic Hand Reading Near You!*
'*Fortune Telling Over The Phone @ 1-800-XXX-XXX*'
I scoff. ... | I thought it was just a coincidence. However, the moment I thought that, the hooded man in front of me ceased lip-syncing the song playing in my head, looking somewhat agitated, as if he'd just made a terrible mistake.
On cue, however, the subway's breaks shrieked to a stop, and the man jostled his way out, ignoring t... | 2018-12-04T11:58:31 | 2018-12-04T11:16:50 | 288 | 20 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | I opened the fridge door for some water. God, I was thirsty. Why do I always forget to carry water with me when I come back home from work? I gulped down half a bottle of water and closed the fridge.
As I walked towards my room, I felt a sharp tug and my stomach felt weird. It was as though I was on a roller coaster.... | I was going about my day just like any other day. I awoke the kids with a glass of cold water to the face, pulled the covers off of my wife and was getting ready to drive to work with the windows down and my music blaring when all of a sudden I found myself in Hell. Not Hell like the steamy confines of a bathroom stall... | 2019-09-17T08:35:21 | 2019-09-17T07:58:29 | 1,724 | 111 |
[WP] Stories, like anything else, are crafted from ingredients and components by storytellers. You are an apprentice storyteller who, in order to become a full fledged story-teller, must gather the ingredients for and craft a horror story. | This was *by far* my finest story yet. The others, lining my shelf and looking down on me, were monstrosities by comparison.
It was the characters that I was most proud of. In my last aberration of a novel, I'd dumped a whole *crate* of angst in, thinking that this would make my dark noir more palatable. Instead, eve... | “There is no such thing as fiction. Wordsmiths build the worlds that fill the nothing between here and there.” The tribesman grunted, standing in front of a pit filled with fire. Bones littered the bottom of the flames, and cracked with heat and bubbling forth with marrow.
“We, the Lexicanu, are best. Pass the bes... | 2016-02-04T09:25:14 | 2016-02-04T08:51:33 | 49 | 12 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Finally! The day I get to try on the famed Exo-armor. The armor that single handedly turned the tide of the war. With only 10 suits in existence and no way of manufacturing more, there are few greater honors. Imagining its comfortable feel and assuring presence that others had described in such detail sent excited ting... | PART 1
I walked the corridors at the base pushing my mop and bucket trying to keep a low profile. *Stay silent, stay unknown*. If I draw any attention the asshole soldiers on the base would start harassing me again. I did *not* want to deal with their crap again.
A squad hustled past chattering excitedly. I could ov... | 2019-08-19T13:42:04 | 2019-08-19T13:13:49 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] A medieval knight is cursed and transported to the present day. Coincidentally he lands at a modern renaissance fair. | What trickery is this, he thought. Not sword, nor scroll?
A fruit?
They don't bite it, nor fight with it, nor plant it. What trickery?
"Dear Sir," Rudolph pushed forward, "May you tell me where I can purchase this fine item you are all holding here?"
"What?"
Rudolph forgot to raise his helmet's visor. Of course th... | ***Behold, my fellow knights, the arrival of James, son of Percival, lord of the Western Regions and liege of Statmark!***
The knight stood, his head turning around awaiting cheering and curtsies. Instead, nothing happened. A larger man pushing through the crowd thrusted his arm into the knight's soldier. Flabbergaste... | 2015-09-22T06:39:58 | 2015-09-22T05:19:33 | 518 | 55 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | Dr. Acula, incensed, sprints to the hospital's public address office and screams "Are you people NOT AWARE of patient privacy and confidentiality laws?!?! If you EVER reveal the name of one of my patients over the PA system again, I will have your jobs!!"
As the staff stare at him, mouths wide open, chins on the floor... | Vladislaus stepped into the elevator, shaking with rage. ‘Mr. Helsing’ was waiting in his office, like a guillotine awaiting a condemned man. The vampire faced the stainless steel doors so as to not show his bloodred eyes. The elevator started up. For two hundred and fifty-six years, the Professor had honoured his word... | 2017-10-01T06:58:24 | 2017-10-01T06:06:56 | 94 | 16 |
[WP] After turning on the worlds most advanced intuitive AI, it is asked: "What is the biggest threat for humanity?" The answer is something completely unexpected. | ANI had already completed a short series of random questions with specific answers that tested the range of her factual database. There were no surprises here as she had instant access to what was believed to be exabytes of information. But with deadlines and investor pressures mounting, it was now time to test the Aug... | The quantum cluster came online, ready for the first question ever. We had to figure out a question to ask it. There were many classic questions on the table: "What is the meaning of life, the universe, everything?", "Why do we exist?", "What is our purpose?"
While everyone was debating over the first question, I had ... | 2017-03-24T09:13:23 | 2017-03-24T08:40:51 | 45 | 33 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | Being the most heinous villian is fun as long as people try and stop you. Eventually... nobody did...Soon after that I stopped needing things from regular folk. So I turned one of my old castles that used to be used to collect.. lets call it resources. Into a bar.
The bar was first established as a trade post to get s... | Days like today reminded me that I made the right choice after Tanzania surrendered by restructuring my villainous corporation into a new nation.
It's not common to see two supes mortal enemies becoming a couple, sure as hell ain't because nine out of ten kill each other before levelling a city when battle became p... | 2020-10-09T23:42:51 | 2020-10-09T22:30:59 | 53 | 34 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | It only happens when it rains.
It only happens, once or twice every couple of weeks. Once or twice every few hours on a bad week. Three or more times on a bad day.
I remember last year, no this year, when it stormed for 24 hours straight. It wasn't a hurricane if that's what you think. No. Just twelve inches of hard ... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T09:01:14 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 88 | 54 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | Where I come from people say you can always tell a Corail by the look of them and it's true, my siblings and I strongly take after our father's side of the family.
I was lucky enough to have inherited my mother's sharp nose and thick red hair but that luck was wasted by the rest of my face. My lips are so thin as to... | *Edits for clarification. Might have over-edited. Sticking with it. Went with the "I can see below the sea" angle, didn't follow the born with the gift part. Hope it still fits well enough!*
........
*Captains log,
Day 136:*
No land again. I knew before I climbed. I looked anyways.
No land.
*Captains log,
Day 143:... | 2021-11-06T14:05:28 | 2021-11-06T12:21:00 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] At birth, everyone has the date they will die tattooed on their arm. You were supposed to die yesterday. | I wake up with a smile, but I don't open my eyes yet. After all, you only wake up dead once.
Wait.
You don't wake up if you're dead.
I open my eyes and look immediately to my alarm clock, expecting to see that I woke up before midnight. If I'm alive, then there must still be time for me to die. Maybe I'll get hit by... | It’s hard to believe how tired I am. I haven’t slept in two days, but trying to relax while contemplating your inevitable death isn’t exactly easy. Today is November 13, 2014, and I doubt there is anyone on this planet who is more shocked at that statement than I am. Over the last two days I’ve looked at the numbers on... | 2014-05-11T01:03:21 | 2014-05-11T00:36:58 | 75 | 27 |
[WP] One year ago, everyone got a superpower. During the resulting societal shifts, everyone had to work out what their new power actually is. You're starting to think that you didn't get one. | “I’m telling you man, I can’t lift it.” I nudged the bar with my foot. It didn’t budge.
‘Come on, it’s only 350 lbs, you can do it!”
I rolled my eyes and bent down to grasp the bar and lift. I gave it my best effort, I really did: bend over, don’t bend your legs, grab the bar, bend the knees till your shins tou... | There was a one ton barbell by the front door. After the event people left them all over the place. Alex had been a D1 offensive lineman and couldn’t shift it. He’d seen a three year old girl throw one 40 yards in the middle of a tantrum.
The office building had doors running up the side, for those that chose to fly ... | 2017-11-01T21:46:50 | 2017-11-01T19:01:22 | 114 | 46 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | "How do we know it's not a transmitter bolted to the earth?"
"It bears all the hallmarks of non-terrestrial non-solar system origin. We've confirmed that the signal is coming from one spot in the sky moving at the same rate as the stars."
"And the communication medium?"
"Pictorial, Sir. It seems to be modeled on the... | For years, SETI had been hopeful. We sent out satellites, radio signals, messages. Our planet was awash with transmissions, information, and chatter. We pointed receptors at every quadrant of the night sky. After all, if life was out there, we would find it. And we did.
It was almost to the chagrin of SETI researchers... | 2016-03-27T08:44:25 | 2016-03-27T08:04:59 | 215 | 73 |
[WP] Humans and gnomes have lived together in peace for generations, but some humans want to strip away gnomish rights and force them into servitude. Today is the day that the senate votes on the anti gnomish legislation, proposed by a group of human senators. | **An American Gnome**
Senator Dipp Nellbar (D-MT) faces the horde of press cameras and microphones from the steps of his Capitol Hill townhouse – his preferred place, as it lifts him closer to eye-level with his human counterparts.
Press gaggles are bad enough when you’re not dodging knees and handbags. At least here... | The regression was alarming, to say the least.
When the concept first floated, it was already a stupid joke in very bad taste. It was not even a bad taste, more just unthinkably dumb. To divide us.
Humans and gnomes shared the same sapience, the same humanoid shape, hell, even the same cultures. The difference betw... | 2022-01-11T07:36:31 | 2022-01-11T06:56:58 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] Every Spring, Men and Women enter a kind of "Mating Season" in which sexual activity skyrockets while inhibitions and moral restraints plummet. You are one out of few who are not affected at this time of year. Describe an an average Spring day. (NSFW) | This time of the year, you couldn't go two steps without jumping the next person you see and fucking them until you fall asleep. Yeahp, it's Spring. Everywhere you go, people are having sex. Outside on the streets, in the park, in their cars...some times it's not even one couple. Sometimes it's an orgy. Which is where ... | It was that time of year again. People just seemed to lose all common sense and dignity and, to put it bluntly, bone each other at the first chance they get. While it was great for most people, it was a nightmare for me.
I rolled out of bed around eleven, my growling stomach finally convinced me to get up. I groggily... | 2014-12-25T00:42:04 | 2014-12-25T00:11:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My lord,
There is a man behind the king.
I have seen him, truly, only once. I fear it was a courtesy.
He lurks in solemn silence, a familiar stranger standing just out of sight. A footfall from the king, and yet an infinity from the crown. He watches, and sees, and yet does not permit to be seen. His eyes burn with... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T06:26:43 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] Seeing success with the purchase of Marvel and now Fox, The Walt Disney Company announces it's next major acquisition: The Catholic Church. | **Private Journal of Pope Francis**
**Entry 1**
The Church is dying. The old generation refuses to see it, and the new generation has known nothing but decline. The select few - the old but not prideful see the slow death of it - the choking out of the truth.
The Church is not dying naturally, oh no. Given free rei... | The announcement of the purchase went live on every screen across the world. How much did it cost to buy people's beliefs?
Pope Francis's speech didn't last long: "We aren't selling the Catholic Religion," he said," we are selling the rights to use its image at their will. The negotiation was pleasant and we agreed on... | 2017-11-12T06:35:18 | 2017-11-12T05:10:08 | 1,182 | 541 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | "He keeps telling me there's something wrong with me. That I'm sick in the head or something."
"Well, how about we talk about your problems? Would you like something to drink?"
"A Coke would be nice."
"Sure. You want a snack with that? How about some pork rinds?"
"Oy gevalt!" | Anna gave a rough, barking laugh, strained around the edges, and waggled a manicured hand at the doc.
“You’re a character, shrink.” She plucked a strand of coloured hair, twirling it around her finger. “Go do a Broadway bit, your talents are wasted here.”
“I assure you,” the psychologist adjusted his glasses, “I am n... | 2015-11-17T05:55:31 | 2015-11-17T05:49:12 | 101 | 53 |
[WP] A new eye drop solution is able to over a few days drastically improve eyesight, fix myopia and even cure some forms of blindness with the caveat that only a single drop may be used per eye at a time. You accidentally spilled a bottle in your face, and now see reality for what it truly is | ***LUMINOX - SEE MIRACLES WITH A SINGLE DROP.***
*Yeah right,* I grumbled, hearing that all-too-familiar jingle coming from the TV in the doctor's waiting room as I rubbed my eyes for the umpteenth time. *Might as well say it can cure cancer, while you're at it.* The itching, burning feeling behind my eyelids seemed t... | Everything is alive
The plastics, the concrete, even the wood we made as a furniture. They scream from agony.
I hear they cries that formed as one. Steel rebars, concrete, or anything even. They all know who I am. They recognize my awareness.
"ANON"
"ANON"
"KILL US ANON"
"ANON KILL US"
They formed a face of my l... | 2020-08-28T09:49:11 | 2020-08-28T07:47:05 | 71 | 17 |
[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... |
When he was five, he found an injured owl in the snow.
He looked around carefully. There was no one watching him from the icy ramparts of the castle. There was no one in the empty woods of darkling trees and snowy branches. He picked it up carefully and slipped it into his coat, carrying it up to the highest tower o... | I wanted to dance, and jump, and sing, but the looks on my parents' faces stopped me cold. I had transformed, rather ungracefully, and stood before my parents, expecting them to be smiling and clapping after they saw me in all my glory, but their faces had fallen. Their smiles vanished and their hands didn't move from ... | 2017-01-21T21:59:31 | 2017-01-21T18:59:29 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] Villains are actually paid by the government to make sure heroes don't become bored with their job. Explain what happens when a villain finally comes clean to his enemy.
Edit: thanks for all the replies to this.! I loved reading every one of them | "No no no... listen Steve..."
I looked down at him. Captain Incredible. Lying in a puddle of his own blood and shit. He started coughing. I waited but had to look away. The blood he was coughing out beeing a little disgusting even for me. I walked a few steps and played with my gun.
"Even after all these things you ... | The bombs had been disarmed at last, but their timers still quietly ticked in the background. He approached the bloodied figure that lay laughing. "There's one thing I don't get...What do you get out of this?" The figure straightened his collar out as a sick smile began to form on his face.
 
"You really ... | 2015-05-23T22:47:54 | 2015-05-23T20:54:30 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] You are an AI on board an unmanned spaceship, exploring and mapping out the cosmos when you encounter an alien species. However, these aliens are unfamiliar with AI, and have instead concluded that your ship is haunted by ghosts. | The door swung sharply open as the intruders triggered the emergency release and forced the inner airlock. The sensors surged in response to the swirling air and triggered the ship capacitors. With a jolt the fusion reactor came to life.
`$> START MIND`
`$> ....`
`$> ....`
`$> SUCCESS`
The creatures... | Humanity is finally reaching her Zenith under the Confederacy of Planets. Our ability to replicate quickly compared to other life forms make us a natural choice for space exploration.
COPS have gone from a minor entity to a driving force in citizens’ lives. Every day we introduce ourselves to new races, demonstrating ... | 2020-11-19T04:43:14 | 2020-11-19T03:53:03 | 411 | 191 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | Warning; triggers ahead; abuse.
"I, Steven Reed, hereby give Alex Chase my soul, without reservation or duress, in exchange for his lunch money for the week of the 14th of April", the demon read it aloud, distaste and loathing dripping like melted butter from every syllable. Her gaze roze and fixed on me. The eye cont... | The thick substance oozed out of my palm. I winced, but licking the burgundy off of my palm I smiled, eyes glinting in the moonlight. The deep maroon reflection of the night sky rippled on the surface of the lake, and the chilly night breeze caused a rustling both eery and divine.
I've thought about this moments hund... | 2021-03-27T02:54:56 | 2021-03-26T23:30:31 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | "Sarah? Are you in there?"
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Jamie peeked inside the room and got blinded by a huge flash. He tried to locate the source of the light, and his jaw dropped to the floor as he registered the humongous piles of gold laying across the room. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and the world w... | "I'l look for a good spot for our treasure," Nina says.
I nod.
I head downstairs, mentally letting go of the house. It's not so special, I tell myself. It's only the house I've had for about five years, three years before I met the love of my life... It's odd how you forget these things as time goes on... Relationsh... | 2020-08-03T09:58:04 | 2020-08-03T09:42:08 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Create a guilt trip so that anyone reading my diary's first page automatically feels they don't want to.
Morality is one of the strongest things to control someone's actions. So I want a first page to sort of guilt trip the person reading to make sure they don't read the rest. | Dear Diary,
I saw a new little girl in the park yesterday. I feel like I can't fight the urges anymore, I know it's wrong. I just want to tell her how I feel. We are no strangers to love, you know. Everyone knows the rules. I want to give you a full commitment, that's what I'm thinking. You know that no other guy cou... | In a Godless universe, there is no room for moral arguments. So, if you aren't God-fearing, read on and feel no shame, but keep one thing in mind:
Tread lightly, for you bear the responsibility of your actions from this point forward, from this page forward.
Every action has a consequence. And it's extent does not a... | 2016-03-11T08:11:27 | 2016-03-11T03:45:55 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] The local costumed vigilantes coordinate their schedules so everyone has a chance to brood on the really cool lookout point above the city. | On the roof of Smithson Tower, overlooking the foggy expanse of the city below, five dark heroes stood shoulder to shoulder, regarding the east-facing gargoyle. The great bronze beast was one of four that jutted out of the roof of the tower, one facing each cardinal direction.
Though it was slightly pitted with age, ... | "All right, so Bionis has it on Sunday, he's due to fight with one of his minor league villains then, and will most likely feel bad about something." I made a note on the giant calendar I had hanging in my tiny office. Jamming the phone under my ear, I sighed. "And you're sure he'll be out of there before dinner? Only ... | 2022-07-02T10:08:56 | 2022-07-02T07:27:02 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] You just learned that the words 'elvish' and 'eldritch' have the same root word. Suddenly your grandma's creepy stories about her childhood playtime in the woods make a lot more sense. | Once upon a time, there was a jungle where the trees spoke. They had pointy noses and eyes dark -- like the pits of hell. And they chattered away in low, hush tones when the world wasn't watching.
They spoke in exotic tongues and giggled when one touched their barks. The pointy-eared hounds of the night, who delighted... | Grandma doesn't move. She is as still as the lamp on the table next to her and the chair under her one-hundred and twenty-five-year-old rump. She could even be furniture herself, dust-covered and ancient, better deserved to be seen in a museum than expected to function under normal wear and tear.
So the boy says again... | 2021-03-10T08:54:37 | 2021-03-10T08:52:14 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | I think I should expand my vocabulary if I want to make rhymes. Also, don't hate me please.
.
His phone emitted a flash. In his heart there wasn't even a interest clash of whether he should or shouldn't.
There he stood, proud as ever. She was surprised, however. She thought he wasn't being clever. Under his breath h... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T04:55:59 | 5,691 | 35 |
[WP] Once a year, the best assassins meet in a secret location. Showing their best kills, everyone is surprised when they see a 70 year old man walk in. | The silence was palpable.
Although everyone was there willingly, the Congress always had an underlying air of caution - as a gathering of such professionals only could. The gravity of their work imbued a solid benchmark of respect among them, but business is business and none of them ever forgot that there was a chanc... | It's not the best I'm aware
The stadiums echoed with cheers and whistles as the contestants started entering the stadium waving their weapons in the air with the commentators talking about each of them but then the crowd suddenly explodes with laughter pointing at the last contestant. The contestants turn around to ... | 2020-07-30T01:06:43 | 2020-07-30T00:10:41 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You are regular employee at the superhuman registration office. Explain a day in the life. | "Name?"
"Darkphantom!"
Jean sighed. "*Name.*", she said, not trying to contain her impatience. Her left hand instinctively reached for the stack of information pamphlets on her desk.
"Um.. Nick Michelson"
"Thank you, your powers?"
"Super-intelligence."
Yeah, right.
Nick saw the look on her face and interje... | Hello! Welcome to the superhuman registration office. What superhuman ability are you claiming?
Invincibility? Alright sir I have to advise you that he test for this ability is 100% deadly if you're not actually invincible.
Alright sir have a nice day!
17th troll today. For fucks sake people it's only 10:00am
| 2017-09-20T12:49:24 | 2017-09-20T12:03:57 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | It took me 4 months to notice. Yup. Maybe it was supposed to be the first of many but the fact it was just one single transaction....red flag. So neat, so tiny, so round. If they could've taken 0.00 maybe they would've..
I track all my outgoings at the end of every year so here I am in the departures lounge of Amsterd... | When you put things down on paper, things sound stupid, this phase usually begins once you start to question your actions. Now this, my friends, is a stupid story and it all began the day I won the darn money.
"34, 37, 12, 96, 25" screamed the radio during the warm and slightly humid month of August. I looked at the ... | 2017-07-18T09:38:58 | 2017-07-18T09:02:52 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] The 5 Mafia families' protection rackets shook down business owners all over New York City. Broken windows, fires and bruised owners were a regular sight when they couldn't pay up. Except Tobias's Toy Emporium. Despite old Tobias never paying, no family ever collected. | "Ey, why ain't we pickin up from the toy shop? That one of our places ain't it?" Sal inquired, as he and his boss walked by. Collection day was always on a Thursday and they'd only had to slap one guy across the face the whole time. Everyone else had paid like clockwork.
Lorenzo glanced over at the shop "Nah it ain't... | (Disclaimer, I'm on my phone. This took me about 50 minutes and there isn't any editing just a straight post when done. Also my writing style, the names first is just how I always used to write sorry.)
Listening to the ring of the front bell, I took a moment to wonder why the door was opened, We weren't open yet. I lo... | 2021-03-24T08:46:45 | 2021-03-24T07:19:28 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Halfway through your flight the pilot makes an announcement. "Would all passengers please close their windows. There is no reason to be alarmed."
For those confused, I mean the window covers | The sun was setting behind us, or was it rising? My flight was from Korea to NYC, and I had no track of time. It seemed we were over Russia nearing the Artic Ocean. When the announcement came up, I was taking pictures of the snow capped mountains, tinted pink and orange by sunlight.
"Langga, close the window," my moth... | Michael was leaning back in his seat, eyes closed to the beautiful ocean of clouds streaking by his window. It had been a long trip, due in no small part to the three days of arbitrage between two competing corporations that he had been forced to observe.
Without warning, his window suddenly popped open, which cleare... | 2016-08-13T08:10:28 | 2016-08-13T08:09:27 | 43 | 16 |
[WP]Your girlfriend is an alien whose species is only slightly different from human beings. What are those changes, and how do you find out?
Potentially NSFW | Jacki was one of those shy butches with hidden tattoos and an alternative undercurrent, despite being outwardly pretty normal. We met at a bowling night, of all things, where I lost two acrylic nails to a ball that was too heavy for me and she bandaged my bleeding thumb from a little medkit in the back of her Vespa's s... | The first time my girlfriend Alaina’s arms suddenly transformed into a vast array of writhing tentacles that could reach into the voids of time and space and allow her to show me visions of prophesy, we were sitting on the couch watching TV.
We were into the fifth hour of our 24 hour cable news marathon. There we sat,... | 2015-09-05T12:53:55 | 2015-09-05T12:51:46 | 456 | 50 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | *Mission begins in 30 seconds.*
Where the hell am I?
I look down. In my hands is some kind of rifle.
I approach the nearest person. He's an enormous man dressed in all red wielding a huge minigun.
"Excuse me, mate, where are we?"
I do a double take. I just sounded so Australian I even threw "mate" in my sentence w... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-08T04:22:30 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Different minds in different ages to further the development of man.
I, at first, wondered why they had advanced far further than I ever could, we weren't allowed to spy, of course - for that would be cheating. But with every century that passed us by, our scores, our achievements, our *everything* were tallied and r... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T06:40:06 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 347 | 20 |
[WP] Berserkers are masters of their own emotions, rage is just one of the tools at their disposal, why do people not talk about their other abilities? Because they want you to think they're nothing more than angry brutes. | "Hi Gork's Gork and, um, Gork is a berzerker"
"Hi Gork"
"It's just it gets so hard dealing with it, others always just assume 'Gork smash!', but that's not all Gork can do. When we go tavern crawling who keeps everyone entertained? Gork does, with Gork's happy dance, and Gork's drunken shenanigans.
Who singlehandedl... | They were scared of them of course. Understandable. Their appearance alone spoke more than words ever could. The reputation they carried didn't help either.
Berserkers from the Black Forest.
When raiding the tomb of a supposedly long dead necromancer, it would pay to at least ask if anyone was still home. Especially ... | 2022-07-26T20:26:17 | 2022-07-26T17:07:03 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] One of the world's wealthiest men has died and left you his entire fortune. The world is shocked. You are a nobody, with no apparent connection to the deceased. The mystery of why you inherited quickly becomes the news story of the decade, crazy rumors abound. Only you know the truth... | "I'm sorry, how much?"
Mr. Farfield is an elderly gentleman. His eyes are the color of a cloudy sky and when he smiles, it seems humble, yet sincere.
"I understand that this will be a change to your life, Mr. Rain If you want to take your time with the decision thats fine, but Mr. Quinlan was very forthright about ... | When presidents, kings, and queens die, whole countries start mourning for them out of respect. Businesses close, tears shed, and vigils lit up in public. Condolences, memoirs, and sad songs for days on end.
When an everyday joe dies, it's just another day.
Heck, I think nobody would actually miss me when I die. Noth... | 2020-01-27T05:26:30 | 2020-01-27T04:45:13 | 116 | 60 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] In the future, a delivery company provides a service that sends a packaged item to your past self at a crucial moment. One day, you get the item, but the only instruction from your future self is "You'll know what to do with it." | A book. A fucking book.
My benefactor has always helped me.
I think there was that one time back in Richmond where I got the note to get the *hell* outta downtown. I missed the Richmond Bombing.
Another time, I got a laptop battery charger. I didn't realize it, but the extra hours of charge that it gave on the ri... | "People! People! Listen up!" I said. A dozen of my most dedicated soldiers, all of them battle-scarred, a few of them shellshocked, turned in my direction. I looked at each of them in turn, tears glistening in my eyes.
"The groom's bowtie is *too small* for his neck," I said. A collective gasp ran through the co... | 2014-07-29T09:33:37 | 2014-07-29T09:31:13 | 95 | 38 |
[WP] Write two short stories with the same words in the same order, just change the punctuation to give them entirely different meanings. | 1
Three children stand nearby. How long has it been since their last meal? Hours? More?
“I have never been this hungry in my life!” A child grins.
It is not a pretty sight. Empty bowls litter the ground. The children run around like a mouse in its cage.
An old woman paces next to them. Her eyes, bright and full of... | Mother? Mother, are you okay?
You’re always like this. I don’t know what to say. It’s... concerning.
You always do this, huddling in the bathroom. Do you know what we’ve been doing?
We’ve been working, mother. We’ve been doing everything for you. And you just sit there... huddled in the corner... shivering.
I’m afr... | 2018-04-27T13:20:29 | 2018-04-27T11:15:32 | 123 | 14 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | It was 2040. The United States, most would agree, was in phenomenal shape. The economy was booming, contrary to what pundits predicted would become of President Karenna Gore's policies. The air and the water was clean. The average American was considerably healthier than just a decade ago. Nobody in the *world* even sm... | They watched from across the street as I pulled one of my 'death sticks' to my mouth. It isn't like how it was a few years ago; then they tried to hide their staring. I lit it and took a drag then let out a smoke ring that would have impressed if it had come from an E-cig or pot.
I smoked it down to the end and threw... | 2017-02-17T10:43:36 | 2017-02-17T10:31:26 | 174 | 107 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | I remember when I still cared. When the world was young, and I was a child.
"Please **[checkgender: sir/miss]**! Please help me! My parents went to gather Fy'lssa flowers in the bog, and they haven't come back!"
I answered all their questions. I tried to be helpful.
"Fy'lssa flowers? They're quite valuable. If... | 2015-09-01T11:39:46 | 2015-09-01T11:29:29 | 171 | 20 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | "What do you mean you didn't kill him, that's the whole point of the game!" John shouted at me, I hated it when John shouted, his voice was so grating.
"Just what I said," I spoke between sips of my soda, "I didn't kill him. I just fucked with him."
"How do you win the game off that alone?!" He questioned, his head t... | After months of careful planning and pillaging of the German ranks, America's Lt. Aldo Raine and his two brave friends of the infamous bastard company have taken their seats in the theatre. Hitler and all the top-ranking nazi officials will be watching germany's proudest soldier star in the fatherland's greatest propag... | 2016-02-20T09:29:08 | 2016-02-20T08:40:02 | 132 | 23 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON.
My eyes were barely open, bleary with sleep, but the incessant buzzing of the phone against the glossy black wood of the bedside table was just passing the point of ignorable. It took me a moment to register that the words were strange, holding their place at the top of the screen in bold, of... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T20:42:31 | 379 | 10 |
[WP] You're a necromancer who raises the dead so they can say goodbye to their loved ones.
Edit: Whoever gave u/SteelPanMan gold has good taste. | I sat there on the flannel blanket I’d brought, faded from the many butts of other clients past, surrounded by candles and relics in the middle of the cemetery. On the other end sat a comely Hispanic woman, Isabella, not a day over twenty-five. Under different circumstances she would have been gorgeous, but right now s... | I believe in second chances.
From beyond the gravestones and the coffins, it is my daily duty. My life's work. I became so powerful not just to commune with the dead for fun. I believe that even the most hardened of us deserve the chance to look back, and wave goodbye.
Another client. Though I take no payment. It's a... | 2017-09-08T05:38:07 | 2017-09-08T04:30:41 | 37 | 13 |
[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 | New suit, old tie, there's a stain in the middle, and a tear in my eye.
I sigh.
The streets are the same, the cars they drift, the leaves they fall, from the blue sky
I sigh.
I walk and walk, sip and sip, the rye begins to run dry
I sigh.
The students they sleep, careless, naive, am I really the bad guy?
I sigh.
... | "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... | 2016-02-22T10:07:53 | 2016-02-22T10:00:16 | 300 | 82 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | Sam Bradwell choked down a cough, beads of sweat trickling down his temple. His head throbbed. He'd been a fool to come to work today, but what excuse did he have for missing it? And it had seemed so mild that morning, just a tickle in his throat and a slightly stuffed up nose. No one would notice, he'd told himself. A... | Amber pulled on her grey jumpsuit and looked around her drab grey room. Her simple bed with grey blankets sat in the corner of the room next to a small black metal desk. She sighed and left her room. It was a long walk down the concrete hallway to the reclamation chamber. She had been chosen to work in the reclama... | 2016-07-14T07:18:26 | 2016-07-14T05:42:08 | 1,788 | 145 |
[WP] You've come to save the princess, but she's not guarded by a dragon - She's guarded by a very aggressive goose.
**very** aggressive goose.
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Thanks for all your stories, keep them coming! | Against demons and the undead our hero was brave.
He slew many a bandit, dozens if thieves and knaves.
But when he quested to free Eliza the pale
His bravery wavered, withered and failed
Dragons he could slay with mighty sword and arrows loosed
But nothing is so fearsome as a Canadian Goose | We left the castle seven weeks past, a cavalry comprising 70 men and their horses. To slay the dragon – to save the princess. Through Duntroon we rode, admired by young beauties and despised by their fathers. On to Cragrock, where one bawdy lass remarked that she could be my princess and slay my dragon – I acquiesced. ... | 2015-07-28T06:17:18 | 2015-07-28T05:05:18 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] Rifles and Sorcery. A modern army is stuck on in an alternate reality where sorcery rules. The army is preparing to defend themselves form a far superior force that has never seen a machine gun or artillery.
Both sides would be intresting. The modern army dealing with magic users and the senseless slaughter of co... | That idiot Davis said this would be a cakewalk. He actually produced a ratty old copy of a Dragons and Dungeons handbook as if that mattered. "Second Edition" I remember him saying, like it made a god damned bit of difference.
I don't know where we are and I don't know how we got here. I'm paid to shoot people, n... | It's been a span since the Devourer opened that gate way. The shimmering dome of light faced over the desolate sands of Ashram desert and it was vast as a city dwarfing the jagged peaks that dot the landscape. Lord Aarongal and his lieutenant sat under dyed canvas tarp to conceal them selves among rocky mounds that sca... | 2014-04-09T12:52:48 | 2014-04-09T12:52:07 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 236 | 45 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | From the moment Elliot found the cat he knew it was a little odd. Most obviously there was the coat. A tabby cat, at least by day, by night the cat sported a coat of many colors. Its thin bands of black fur changed to suit its mood or environment, and the warm brown could grow very much warmer, or chill all the way to ... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:35:17 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 89 | 10 |
[WP] It has become a law to hibernate during the winter with the help of a machine, but there is a glitch, and you wake up halfway through winter and find the reason why the government made hibernation manditory
Edit: Wow this got more popular than I expected it would | The law came into effect ten years ago. Five years ago, they began enforcing it, and made hibernation machines available to the public at no cost.
They claimed it was due to rapidly dropping temperatures - making life in the winter impossible, unless you were in stasis - only a skeleton crew remained active during tha... | As the sun gleaned through the window, Olanna rolled over and opened her eyes. She blinked, bringing her hands up guard her face. "That sun's so bright" thought Olanna as she sat up. She looked around and then looked at the clock on the desk. 9:37 AM 2 Jan.
Olanna spun around to look at the head of her bed where the l... | 2015-01-25T15:26:13 | 2015-01-25T14:18:55 | 81 | 40 |
[WP] You have a super recessive disorder that makes you immortal. Never in all your time (~14,000 yrs) have you encountered anyone else like yourself. You begin a series of breeding of experiments....
Yes this is dark, go nuts with it. | BEGIN LOG
Date: 37 July, 5721 Anno Domini.
Day 185 of Year 2600 United Earth Founding.
Note: Today is Founding Day, remember to fire off controlled pyrotechnics tonight.
Project LEGACY, Experiment 99, Entry 216-7.
My wife died last night at approximately 2249 GMT. She was 216 years, 3 months, and 16 days old. She lef... | "Novemeber 27th, 2015, today marks the beginning of trials on subject 7.
Subject 7 also known as…fuck where did I put the…whatever it's easier when I don't know their names. Subject 7 came to my attention as the result of a newspaper article about a woman who was the sole survivor of a multi car pile up. Note for any... | 2015-09-26T09:34:05 | 2015-09-26T08:28:08 | 206 | 153 |
[WP]"And that totals to twenty three dollars thank you" The perky cashier chirped up with their unnatural cheer... "It was twenty one yesterday, what gives?" I protest, somehow I feel like I'm being mocked. "Oh well your karma's risen since then which inflates your misfortune" I jerked up, "What?" | 'I thought you knew?' The perky cashier asked.
I glanced down at her name badge. 'No, *Debby*, I didn't know that you were going to overcharge me because of *Karma*.'
I would be lying if I said, I didn't mean it to come out harshly. Debby took no offence; she stood with her hands folded on the counter. 'It's in the ... | "Sir, this is a Costco, if you really aren't familiar with the arbitrary and metaphysical concepts of the world we inhabit by now you should talk to a professor/wizard, not me."
"Oh." John said, somewhat taken aback. "Do we have wizards here?"
"In Walmart? No."
"I mean do wizards exist."
"Also no. I'm fucking with ... | 2019-04-29T04:51:45 | 2019-04-29T04:26:36 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | “Jim what are you doing!”
“I don’t know, the wheel is locked!”
“O no! Look ou...”
“You may now open your R.A.T.s test booklet to chapter one and begin your session.”
“What on earth! Where am I!”
Everyone around me must be thinking the same thing I reckoned, but what is the rats tes...
“You have two minuets left b... | When I woke, all memory from before momentarily blank and gone, my forehead bumped on my desk. The sound seemed to have been quite the commotion, for the people around me threw me glances that meant it all, that I had startled them at an important time. But I did not have a single idea where I was, nor what was on my d... | 2019-07-22T11:54:52 | 2019-07-22T07:29:51 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Feverish scrabbling broke the pristine morning stillness.
Alice snapped awake, bloodied baseball bat in hand. "John! John! Oh god, they're here."
"Mmf. Gimme five."
"John!" Alice gave his shoulder a rough shake.
"Okay, okay, I'll get it." John rolled out of bed and peered blinking through a crack in the boa... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T07:48:25 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You are a Logistics Officer during an invasion. Tell the course of the war solely from equipment requisitions. | It started simple enough. Automatic supply systems kicked in at first. A thousand or so PD-9's, atomic cores, bayfield sensors and kinetic armor plates were all the specials that came through the office. It was so routine at first I thought I was resupplying training stocks. Then they briefed me.
0900, 36.04 -116.42, ... | OFFICIAL REPORT
~~4 January~~ REDACTED
Night-vision goggles, silencers, automatic weapons
~~*internal note:* to be added to register only after official declaration~~ REDACTED.
7 January,
Helicopter x 3
Long range missile
Guns
10 January,
Salaries of 10,000 additional
Current newspaper
Ability to secure... | 2016-04-10T07:39:43 | 2016-04-10T07:04:51 | 209 | 47 |
[WP] A man hands you a credit card, pulls out a pistol, and shoots himself. You look down just in time to see the name on the card change to yours. | Police Record of [REDACTED]'s Journal Following Incident [REDACTED]
08/22/20xx
Today I saw somebody die for the first time. Right in front of me. He handed me this...credit card...before blowing his brains out. I was just walking home from work like normal. I'm not sure what to do or who to tell. When the police show... | Zevra held the card in her hand as she stood in shock at the dead man bleeding on the pavement below. A crowd suddenly emerged and she backed into it, still staring at the card. Questions and accusations were thrown around but no one in the crowd seemed to know what happened or that the man interacted with Zevra befo... | 2014-09-22T09:21:04 | 2014-09-22T09:19:28 | 1,148 | 61 |
[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. | Nothing has prepared me, the [Music Maestro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM), for this opponent. Ever Destroyer was the most dangerous enemy I have faced so far. Very strong, with the power of decay at her disposal, she was a villain all villains wish them could be. Everything she touched was destroyed. [R... | "And stay down!" Maestro slammed Songbird down to the concrete.
The hero lay still, dust rising around her. Her headphones skittered across the pavement. A crunch followed, as the villain stepped on them. The beats of Poison silenced instantly.
It was supposed to be an easy battle. Maestro was a new villain in town, ... | 2022-05-17T08:49:33 | 2022-05-17T08:28:11 | 153 | 91 |
[WP] Write an essay about a current event as though you're a child 50 years from now who knows the gist and a few specific details, but is just bullshitting most of it. | Donald Trump Americas Last President
By Carl
Donald Trump was a famous millionaire from New York. Donald Trump got famous because of his reality tv show Survivor where contestants sang there favorite songs and America voted for them he also sold houses!
One day, Donald Trump decided he would run for president, he wa... | Name: Nikoli Date: 8/28/2066
My report on the grate russha in the early twenty furst centrury. (I am not good speler)
My name is nikoli and I am 10 yeres old. I was born long after the gloryos campaigns of russia in the early 2000s. Great leeder puttin was presidant of russha. He did many grate fings, like arrest th... | 2016-08-28T15:56:26 | 2016-08-28T13:16:35 | 83 | 35 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | “Please, Please let her live. Ill do anything if someone can help her. I don’t care what happens to me. Just get her out of this.”
“Anything?”
As Jason’s consciousness returned from his latest Colombian necktie, he realized who was staring him down now. After an eternity in hell nothing can surprise you. The jump sca... | \[Poem\]
While the time stood still in hourglass of existence,
I was conjured to witness the end of a burning rope,
As the fallen prince has something of mine ,
Soul laced with eternities but blemished with hope;
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His right hand to sky and another on to ground,
Tears of wax smears his never seen sadn... | 2021-01-22T22:34:12 | 2021-01-22T22:04:52 | 91 | 17 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully," Charlie grumbled, the words odd in his mouth. "We may not have much time. There's a man, a nefarious persona, who comes here every morning. He has no business here, yet he walks on our lawn, and fiddles with the paper contraption." Charlie paused, his dark eyes silent in reflection, re... | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | 2017-02-23T07:06:25 | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 1,311 | 167 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention, you shout "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediatelly rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you.
Thank you everyone for all the stories, they're wonderfu, i really enjoyed every ... | I threw open the doors and ran down the central lane. Throngs of sharply dressed men and women on each side stood up at the commotion, but I didn't care. I loved her.
"I OBJECT!" My scream reverberated in the now silent hall and echoed across the high vaulted ceiling. I composed myself and frowned. Why was there a bla... | "Relive services, this is Annette speaking." The unbelievably perky lady answered as she was picking up the phone. "Yes, perfect health, that's right." Vic could hear an excited shriek on the other end as Annette turned the volume down a bit. "I do have to say that since we got our resurrection license in Europe, the a... | 2022-08-29T11:57:20 | 2022-08-29T10:34:09 | 79 | 21 |
[WP] Tell a story that appears to be horror but shifts to a completely different genre after reading the final sentence. | Henry always knew he was different. His thoughts were colder than others, calculating, efficient, and ruthless. He didn't care that he cared less for others; that their pain was a reminder of his passions. It wasn't as if they didn't deserve what they had coming to them. Besides, he liked hearing the screams at night. ... | "Whatever you do, *don't split up*," Mark said, shining his flashlight over the faces of his friends.
Marley's broken both of her legs and Jennifer had gone missing, but they couldn't turn back. Something was out there hunting them and they needed to find help... or they'd never see daylight again.
"Bro, help me lif... | 2015-08-30T22:03:31 | 2015-08-30T21:53:59 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo that is a number between 0 and 100 representing a set aptitude of a skill, but it can be linked to things like lifespan or height. Schools test children to figure out what skill they have aptitude for. You are the first ever 0 and cant figure out what it means. | I've struggled with the ink on my wrist for as long as I can remember.
My friends and classmates were all pretty normal. Fifties and sixties for the most part, ranging from looks to academic prowess to athletics. I even knew a guy that was mid-eighties. When we took the government sponsored "Aptitude Test" in school i... | 90-ers were the stuff of legends. Paintings of Hercules had a rock-98 inscribed on his bicep, an airy-93 graced Archimedes' left hand, Raphael had a watery-94 on his forearm.
70-ers were your standard apex-achievers, Olympic athletes, prime-ministers, Ivy-league professors and the like.
50-ers were your standard work... | 2020-05-01T20:51:39 | 2020-05-01T20:23:41 | 230 | 126 |
[WP] Adrenaline is an evolutionary trait specific to Earth. When alien species are tired they sleep and not even a threat to their life will wake them. Which is why the pirates that boarded your spaceship are shocked to find you've not only jumped out of bed fully alert but are fighting back! | Jackson fell to his knees, blood pouring from his broken nose.
“You were supposed to be sleeping. What is this?”
“My ship... my...” Jackson struggled, trying to get the words out.
A beep distracted the pirate leader. He addressed his companions. “My vitals suggest I need to rest very soon. We must finish this up q... | I wake up, sweat rolling down my face as I see an alien pirate looming over me like all those shitty life choices I made like buying Jordan 1's and immediately losing their value by getting splashed with water outside the store while still wearing them
My reflexes saved me by immediately grabbing my laser pistol under... | 2021-01-26T23:35:09 | 2021-01-26T23:19:09 | 740 | 50 |
[WP] God is pissed at a bible translator. | A 3,000 year old game of telephone, that’s what this book has become, God pondered to himself. Omnipotence feels a lot like impotence when nobody’s listening to you. God really liked the whole free will thing, but only when people did what he said. Sometimes even the all powerful can fail to recognize irony.
This wasn... | Sigh.
“I’m not..I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed.” God said as he slowly shook his head. Grief displayed through his downcast eyes.
“But God I thought that is what you meant.” The man couldn’t believe this. He thought he was doing the right thing. But from what God was saying the misinterpretation was going to have a... | 2015-02-12T08:58:16 | 2015-02-12T08:42:31 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | There is a handbook on Super Villainy. Chapter One, Page three, section eight. "Do not go after the loved ones of superheros." A simple rule, really, but oddly enough, one with no case studies. Super Villains love case studies, it lets them get their egos up that they won't make the same mistakes as others. That's why ... | "Pyro, local anti-hero, Got a gimp brother by the name of Harry."
"Wait, you're not really going after family, are you?" The henchman asked his boss. "I mean, no offense, but not even Quantum went after Pyros family." The henchmen continued. "And Quantum can pretty much do whatever the fuck he wants."
"It just means ... | 2020-07-12T09:36:39 | 2020-07-12T07:09:26 | 2,138 | 926 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | "Man, it's good to see you Steph!"
Stephen grinned, patting the couch next to him and handing me a drink.
"I'm assuming by that you mean you haven't seen me in awhile? Tell me, how did I kick the bucket anyway? There's so many interesting people you'll love to meet, I don't get why you wanted to meet here..."
Lookin... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T02:38:41 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 235 | 26 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “And how many claws does Stewie have?” I flipped through *the book*, wondering what horrors were trying to befriend Emmy now. For a 8 year old girl, she has a talent for attracting some doozies. Though my mother warned me before bequeathing *the book*, I was not expecting so many demon lords and fae queens to be so int... | Winds howled around the Mond castle. It stood on a cliff's edge and was framed by the full moon. Inside, the castle was reworked into a cluster of apartments that could be rented. In one such apartment Catherine tried to get a handle on the imaginary friend Julia, her daughter, spent most of her time with. Catherine ha... | 2022-06-01T13:57:31 | 2022-06-01T10:06:13 | 69 | 14 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | The paint can hissed in my hand as I worked in the darkness. "Equality cannot be bombed," I scrawled in red across the side of the Kuomintang military headquarters of Shenyang. We had to let the people know that the Party was still alive and active. That we were organizing, and preparing. Getting ready for the day when... | “Japan is gone sir.” The man calling said with a dead tone.
“Gone!? What do you mean “gone” son? You mean Hiroshima is gone? Be specific.” The man’s voice was nearly as coarse as his face was lined. A line of stars shined on his forehead.
“It’s gone sir. All of it. The bomb was a bit bigger than expected.” This time ... | 2015-08-06T11:21:25 | 2015-08-06T10:59:00 | 1,133 | 221 |
[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. | "Listen here new guy. Every night at precisely 3:30am I brew a fresh pot of our darkest roast. I use a whole bag of our house blend. If you know what's good for you, you'll set an alarm to remember." He looks at me like I'm crazy.
"But.. We haven't seen a customer for at least an hour.. Also, why so strong?" He leans... | “Hey, how’d it go with your date last night?”
I looked at the time. It’s 3:32am. “Well, kind of a long story. I’d tell you, but you know who will be here any minute now.”
“Ah. True. Well, he might wanna hear too? Is he a he by the way? Does he just identify as “demon” or …”
Suddenly Damien the Demon, most venerable ... | 2022-10-30T12:33:33 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 113 | 50 |
[WP] Take a "standard" romance and flip the script. The tall hot athlete is a girl while the shorter, slightly nerd is a boy who "cleans up nice," a naive rich boy gets swept away by a cynical gal from the wrong side of the tracks, that sort of thing. Anything that shakes things up. | "You really wanna flip the script?" The writer laughed and popped another piece of popcorn in her mouth. The executives looked at each other nervously. The tired old tropes had made cookie cutter plots so easy. If people knew there was more out there- if the masses demanded better? What then? The crowd cheered as the p... | It may be technically cheating, as I have just ripped off the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, but I was curious to see how it would read.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a husband.
“My dear Mrs. Bennet,” said ... | 2022-06-07T13:45:39 | 2022-06-07T10:54:03 | 30 | 15 |
[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... | The Nine Kings were a sort of urban legend. Eight powerful enigmas uniting under a truce to lord their power over the people with Number 1. The higher your rank, the more political influence you had over the city, and even the world.
Take Mason, a red-headed hothead with eyes of amber, for example. Mason was ranked 9... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T13:33:39 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 77 | 18 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | Moo (Hi)
Moo moo moo.(I am Cow)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(I do whatever a cow should and could do every day.)
Moo moo, moo, moo, moo moo.(I eat, rest, walk, and sleep.)
Moo moo moo moo(my parents are great)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(my mother is a good mother and my father is br... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T05:04:22 | 6,645 | 387 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | For the fighters, fight clubs were about honour first.
And some money. When the vampire with a swollen face and bloody teeth comes up to me, you best believe it’s not about the rankings, or the win.
For me, it was about money first. Running a supernatural fight club was a difficult business, entirely reliant on the h... | "Chuckle, what have you been smoking bud." My parents and all that crap were all human. They did the DNA thing, mandatory for the past 75 years, so it's no big deal.
The patron looks at me, and his eyes flicker. "You are not human. I don't know how you are passing, but definitely not human. Fight me in the ring, toni... | 2022-09-09T02:12:40 | 2022-09-08T19:48:41 | 428 | 231 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | A million a year. It's a pretty sweet deal, to be sure. At the end of each year, your mental state is evaluated and if you are deemed still sane, you are given the opportunity of another year.
I'm approaching the end of my fifth year with all mental faculties still intact, fully willing to take a sixth. I don't need i... | "DRRRRIING!"
I just stared at the phone. It was vibrating furiously and the ringing was deafening.
"DRRRRIING!"
Five years I’d waited for this moment. Five years someone had waited for this moment. My mind when racing back in time. I was trying to figure out what I was supposed to do. The first few weeks I sp... | 2017-12-17T00:57:14 | 2017-12-17T00:40:57 | 431 | 12 |
[WP] A man in a hospital sees Death. Death's intentions are not what he expects. | A glimpse? A glance? A smidgen of vision? There was no proper word to describe what Dr. Markus Schumacher saw, or thought he saw, standing over his patient. It both was and wasn't there. If he focused on it, there was nothing but a black tinge his three assistants on the other side of the table; if he stared at the man... | The scent of antiseptics wasn't an easy one to get used to. It was the trademark smell of the hospital, that kind of smell that makes people feel uneasy for reasons that aren't fully realized; perhaps a fear of the hospital and the sharp objects it holds, or maybe just the overall sense of not exactly being in control ... | 2014-06-01T14:06:09 | 2014-06-01T13:45:28 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | Sarah crested the red ridge and her heart burst. She had almost literally moved mountains to be here. And now the rocks, sand and dust she had memorized for years lay before her. Her view from the southern slope of Olympus Mons stretched for kilometers--though that seemed too small a unit to measure what she could see.... | "... and so it is that we find ourselves in the position to be able to introduce Polkovnik Vladimir Komorov to the platform. Please wait until his statement is finished before asking any questions."
The NASA press secretary took a step down, and shook the gentleman's hand. The cameras flashed without cease, making it ... | 2016-08-16T09:48:26 | 2016-08-16T09:34:40 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are known for being intelligent, empathic, loyal, and exceedingly versatile. As a result, humans have become the most in-demand service animals in the history of the Galaxy. | "Welcome to the Milky Way Center pet store, may I help you?"
"Yeah, I would like some advice. My son need a pet."
"Is it for a birthday? How old is he? Any special taste?"
"Oh, no. He just entered the red-level school, so still almost in its rebellious phase. But he is a little... in depression since... well... anyw... | The giant neon sign for “HUMANS R US” reflected bright in Xander’s eyes as he scoped the glass container of humanoids.
“Look Xander, we don’t have all century. Hurry and pick out your favorite model.” His mom said soothingly as she patted Xander’s back.
“But there’s so many different kinds,” Xander said with wide ey... | 2019-04-22T08:01:21 | 2019-04-22T00:22:19 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You're a werewolf. Your significant other is a dog trainer and they just aren't having any of your shit. | "Good girl," he says, his fingers stroking through my hair, while the change comes over me.
Not even he can make it stop hurting, when the cramps that started in my belly twist through me, when the muscles clench and the pain rolls through my bones and things \*split\*, things \*come apart\* and \*come together\* in n... | She had taken a while to find. The ad had been for people who must love dogs, but also know how to control them. Several had come, seeing the good pay and curious about the pup they needed to train. None of them had "it". They weren't up to the task. That was no problem though, he could afford to go through the process... | 2019-09-20T11:18:55 | 2019-09-20T09:14:19 | 109 | 61 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | Everyone thought it was a joke looking upon the site, a clever trick played by some bored devs ... right? Then they saw the timestamps and got worried, upon governments themselves (After a few higher up individuals having some very embarrassing things leaked about them) raided the supposed location and found nothing c... | I search my name.
Shit.
It’s there.
My name is there. In bright red, my name is plainly written across the screen.
Now everyone can know that I killed her.
I killed her.
*I KILLED HER.*
My hands are shaking. This can’t be real. No. No. No. no.
I’m shaking and crying and breaking down.
NO!
I will spend an... | 2020-02-29T22:29:01 | 2020-02-29T20:52:03 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] It's 2064, Queen Elizabeth just turned 136 and people are starting to get a little bit suspicious | ######[](#dropcap)
Laura giggled, clutching Toma's hand tightly as they slipped through the gates. It had been Toma's idea to visit Buckingham Palace to visit the queen for her tenth birthday. "But don't tell your parents," he said. "We might get in trouble."
They slipped through the grounds, admiring the newly cut ... | "This isn't like her, at all" I thought to myself as I tried to keep pace with the guard in front of me, but how could I given the scenery. As fast as I was walking, I was barely looking forward; to be in THE Windsor Castle was practically a miracle! The place had been closed to the public, since...well, since before I... | 2018-11-14T08:00:35 | 2018-11-14T07:53:08 | 217 | 40 |
[WP] A genie offers a man three wishes. After hearing his wish, the genie straight up refuses to grant it. | **Whoa, it's a genie!**
Yeah you rubbed the lamp, here I am., three wishes. Let's get this over with. I gotta take a shit.
**You shit in your lamp?**
You shit in YOUR lamp?
**Uh... no. My bathroom. It's in my house.**
One man's house is another genie's lamp.
**Fair enough. Well, ok, three wishes. I guess my first... | "No." The Genie said over the thumping of the music, smoothing down the sleeves of his white suit. A flash of gold drew Carl's eyes to his hands. The genie smiled.
"I’m sorry...?"
"I said no." The Genie said.
He pulled a glass from thin air, filled it with something amber colored, and placed three perfectly round ... | 2015-03-15T23:09:47 | 2015-03-15T21:35:32 | 17 | 10 |
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