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[WP] During the cultural exchange throughout the galaxy, it becomes clear that every species has their own fantasy tropes. One particular ambassador from the other side of the Milky Way decides to tell a story that is famous on their planet. | Emilia Parks, diplomat to Earth, had been chatting with Gabnik Mknal from the Aoibnah system long after everyone else had retired to their rooms. Trying to revolve around every specie's natural sleep cycles was still very complicated, but both Humans and Aoibnahns had stamina-based predator ancestors; they could tolera... | The truth of stories is: that's all we are. Here is a story of us.
Deep in the core of Matrix 616 is a little known data adjunct, barely functioning, but it still emits the light of the Source. This data was uncovered, uncorrupted by decay, from a limb of many cycles past.
When the Source was blue and young, the Co... | 2020-03-03T15:55:59 | 2020-03-03T15:46:42 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | – So there's been a robbery, but you are not guilty of that, I'm pretty sure.
– Uh, yeah, actually…
– No, I know, it's all fine, you tried your best to prevent that.
– Well, the truth is…
– Nah, it's okay, man, you don't have to feel guilty. It has been a massive scheme. We will just learn to defend ourselves bette... | “I’m Super Special Agent Dirk Diggler and this Super Important Agent Mick Mickerson, I assume you are expecting us.”
The agents stood in the doorway, peering down the hall past the lady who greeted them.
“Ah, yeah, sure. You’ll be wanting to speak to my manager, right?”
Diggler lifted his clipboard to reading level... | 2018-05-03T05:52:10 | 2018-05-03T05:32:31 | 454 | 156 |
[WP] Dr Frankenstein enters a body building competition, but when he arrives he realizes that he strongly misunderstood the objective | Victor flexed. He rippled. Under the hard spotlights the contours of his oiled body gleamed. He was tanned, cut, a hardbody, sculpted perfection and he hadn't picked up a syringe or a scalpel even once.
He struck a pose, isolating another muscle group, and there was an outburst from the front row as a respected pat... | It was perfect. All the nights spent digging up graves, all the frantic escapes from the biting torches and pointed pitchforks of the mob... They all paid off tonight.
Leading the grotesque figure by a chain fastened around his neck, the Doctor made his way to Town Square, a slight skip in his step as he anticipated t... | 2014-07-01T08:35:34 | 2014-07-01T07:50:14 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Write a 500 word long story that only uses each word once | Nights were filled with cold, frigid storms of endless horizon. Easily finding peace- tranquility, even- when gazing upon what could only be defined as first-hand experience into Watcher’s Willful Eye. Foregone conclusively, universal scale unimaginable unless seeing.
Constellations slowly drifting through space-time i... | (this was too hard so i just did 100, heres my attempt. it is incoherent i know)
George?
Yes?
something to tell you
Alright, shoot.
Well theres this girl
Same old story?
Better believe it
Do explain
plane. aisles. seated beside red head. mighty fine.
must be more?
words. beat me over head. bad speak.
sorr... | 2018-09-05T20:10:08 | 2018-09-05T18:58:02 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] A bed ridden child is given solace by the monster under the bed.
Life's been dull. Make me feel.
EDIT: Wonderful stuff, everyone. Thanks for the stories. | "*...you...don't...leave...*"
Eli lifted his head off the pillow. He *did* hear it this time, he was sure of it.
Four days after school let out for the summer, he had convinced himself that there was a monster under the bed. He'd be drifting off to sleep, only to hear soft noises in his room, like a mouse or a vole... | I don't kill kids.
'Then why are you under my bed?'
Because I eat kids.
'But I'm alive!'
For now. You're sick.
'Daddy said I'm gonna get better. He said even though I'm sick, they're gonna bring in the best doctor and he's gonna make me better.'
Maybe that's the case. But I'm down here just in case.
'In case wha... | 2014-05-19T08:55:41 | 2014-05-19T08:26:44 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You have a friendc who buys you gifts that, days later, turns out you need. You figure they’re just observant. In till they give you a giant stuffed bear, to your surprise as it is a fairly normal gift and on your car ride home you are crash and the extra cushion of the bear saves your life. | “Ezekiel?!” I exclaimed as he walked into my hospital room. I was sure I wouldn’t see him until after I left the hospital, if even then. Every time I got hurt, he always disappeared for a while unexpectedly.
“Hey Riley,” he said hesitantly, looking over my bruised figure. I glanced down immediately to make sure I wasn... | "What do you mean I'm crash" was my first shock, I had just been in my car ride home, and now I'm being told this garbage?
"You are crash bandicot" the wise old sage nodded, for reasons he refused to get into; This wise old sage was a piece of wood.
"No no no, I've played the game. I know how this ends" I denied, but... | 2018-09-08T04:39:03 | 2018-09-08T03:52:17 | 90 | 34 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | *So Mr Obama, what are your qualifications?*
*Well, I was 44th President of the United States of America*
*Well, Mr President, what about your presidency makes you qualified for a job at Disneyworld? We already have a robot playing you in the hall of Presidents*
*Michelle, BRING ME MY SUPER SUIT*
^^*zzzziiiipppp*
... | "Mr. Obama, I want you to understand that, well, your qualifications are up to par, and your experience certainly is plenty, but what we do not understand is why you'd choose to apply for this position."
"Mr. McDonald, contrary to popular opinion, the most powerful man in the world is not Bernie Sanders, nor Xi Jin P... | 2016-02-23T02:07:50 | 2016-02-23T01:52:30 | 89 | 47 |
[WP] In this world of magic, you're a mage who specializes in sound magic. You've just discovered an extremely dangerous and chaotic form of sound magic, naming it "Dubstep." | Most people think of audiomancy as supportive or for parlor tricks.
Oh sure, breaking a piece of glass at it's resonant frequency is impressive, but not usually an effective combat technique. A temporal mage can stop the fragments in midair and move; a thermal mage can make a wall of ice, or use heat to keep it fused... | I double check my surroundings before closing the door to the barn and locking it, both with the key and with some restriction magic. I want to ensure my practice goes off without a hitch, especially if I'm planning to use it for the grand magic games.
I readjust my ear-blockers and take my position in the centre of ... | 2018-06-14T05:30:26 | 2018-06-14T04:45:13 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every human goes to a special school. Here, they will be magically drawn to the classroom where someone will teach them their true calling. The room you enter is...empty. Not even a teacher there. Apparently no one else can even see a door there. | Alone. One word that defined my whole life.
—————-
The day my father vanished from the house, leaving nought but cigarette stubs and a vacant closet, my Mom cradled me in her arms and we were alone together.
On the first day of grade school, in a sea of new and unfamiliar faces, laughing and talking about things I... | Your first day of Life School had always been the biggest day of your life. You spent eighteen years enjoying a carefree ride until you get tossed into a building where strange energy guides you to a classroom; here you will have a Guide that teaches the ways of your chosen trait. From janitor to a nuclear scientist, e... | 2022-05-07T22:14:18 | 2022-05-07T17:27:57 | 203 | 121 |
[WP] A waiter is grating the cheese for you at a restaurant. He askes you when to stop. You choose to remain silent as the cheese starts to pile up | Cheese dusted my pasta.
My waiter, Dennis, flashed me a winning smile. "Enough, sir?"
"I'll tell you when to stop."
"Sounds good."
He grated the lump of parmesan a few seconds more, until the surface of my pasta bolognese was covered in white flecks.
He paused, raised his eyebrows inquiringly, and, when I made no... | It’s been one of those days. One of those weeks, actually. Work, which almost always is less than satisfying, has actively sucked for days on end, Dan thought to himself as he nursed his scotch.
He glanced at Barbara, who was again surreptitiously looking at her phone below the edge of the table. He suppressed a si... | 2017-03-21T14:31:07 | 2017-03-21T14:04:39 | 448 | 28 |
[WP] Funnily enough, you became the world's strongest necromancer because no one else thought of raising other necromancers as undead. | “Ah, so it’s a pyramid scheme.”
“What? No! It’s not a pyramid scheme! I raise necromancers and they raise other… oh shit, it’s a pyramid scheme. I started a pyramid scheme!”
“Hold on, it’s not that bad. You did it for good reasons, to stop the evil Queen Dottera.”
“But why did I want to stop her? What makes her so e... | Existence is a circle.
A birth takes effort and energy, the single cell grows and eats from the womb for the baby to draw a first breath when it tastes air for the first time. An organism consuming energy for its own individual need, in a world of similar organisms, the end of everything if Life with a capital L hadn'... | 2022-05-14T06:31:16 | 2022-05-14T06:13:35 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] After you are elected President, you discover a big red button hidden in your desk in the Oval Office. When you ask your predecessor about it, he said that it had been there for decades, but the secret of what it did died with Kennedy. After a few years, you finally give in and push the button.
To clarify, each P... | On my desk, between my little desktop American flag and my malfunctioning clock, which only seemed to incorrectly measure seconds, there is a button with a flip top. Over my years as president, this button has tempted me, but fear of what it could possibly do prevented me from touching the forbidden control.
However, ... | Aliens exist, the Illuminati controls Congress, wrestling is real. Every state secret listed on a printout thicker than a double cheeseburger. My racing heart slows upon discovering that no, you can't order a lamb burger on Thursdays because the chef who handles that is off. The facts grow less interesting the deeper I... | 2015-04-08T15:49:02 | 2015-04-08T15:23:23 | 81 | 30 |
[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. | Cracked spear shaft slowly brought to a defensive point. A shaky bloodied hand holds the spear forward, left eye no longer rests in the orbital socket of the hairless ape. How the hell did such a turn of events take place. A human. A stinking, wretched, fucking human.
Year after year my bets were made good. Of cou... | The Grand Tournament was a tradition dating back a thousand years. The people of the Sr'atlain Cooperative *deserved* a little break every now and then. The blood sport of Tournament time was accompanied by feasting, by marriages, and by traditional Divorce duels. The lesser beings of the galaxy that survived would get... | 2020-09-13T19:31:03 | 2020-09-13T19:16:13 | 112 | 39 |
[FF] How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak
WORD LIMIT: 200 WORDS
PROMPT: It's happened about two weeks ago. The zombie outbreak. Your character was somehow able to survive, being in one of the epicenters of the event. How did they survive those first two weeks? | The first thing you need is water. The second thing you need is food. Beyond that, you start dealing in wants, not needs. I wanted to be alone, though, solitary, and I got that. This is isn't a boy scout camp, this isn't Remember the Titans, comradery won't win this championship, other people are a liability.
When it ... | They all went for shotguns. I went for a haz-mat suit. I had warned them that it wasn’t like the movies or video games, that there were serious biological hazards that had to be considered. They didn’t listen. When I rejoined them, they had SPAS-12s and sawn-offs strapped to their backs. I couldn’t fathom where they go... | 2012-08-13T13:03:00 | 2012-08-13T12:30:03 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] It's your 93rd birthday and after blowing your candles, you jokingly rearrange the candles from 93 to 39. When you wake up the next day, you feel... young again.
First prompt ever!! Based off of a post I saw on front page. | “Papa,” My great-granddaughter, Mya, shouts as she tugs on the sleeve of my shirt. I turn to see her beaming up at me. Eight years old and full of love and wonder. “What are you wishing for?”
I smile. I have an urge to tell her that as you get older you wish less and less. You learn that life doesn’t give you what yo... | Not understanding why this familiar but distant feeling was happening, I sit up. It was odd. Not odd as in looks but in the feeling of sitting up almost effortlessly at my age. It had been ages since I felt... good? Young? Able to endure the day, I suppose?
"Meh, maybe today's a good day! No arthritis first thing in ... | 2018-03-14T12:54:15 | 2018-03-14T12:15:51 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] Scientist have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence. | I almost threw the helmet into the trash after hearing an incoherent whisper inside my head. This thing was only a gimmick, just like I imagined. Beautiful graphics, though. It just didn't live up to the hype. According to the manufacturers, these weren't merely simulated realities. The helmet scanned the user's unique... | John Smith sat nervously, slightly leaning forward, in the metal chair with a low back. It wasn't very comfortable. His fingers were steepled, his elbows were on his knees, and he looked around the suspiciously stark white room once again. He wasn't sure what he was expecting to see--something, anything--but there was ... | 2021-06-02T06:00:24 | 2021-06-02T05:03:49 | 70 | 45 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | “That’s just great, do you have any idea which way to go?!” Satan complained.
Buddha replied in serene monotone “You must simply learn to enjoy the journey.”
“Besides,” said Jesus while he adjusted the rear view mirror locking eyes with Satan over his onyx aviator sunglasses. “I am the way.” | In 72, a crack angelic unit was sent to purgatory by a supernatural court for a crime they didn't commit. These deities promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the [Antioch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch) underground. Today, still wanted by the pantheon, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If yo... | 2017-11-15T14:43:36 | 2017-11-15T14:40:58 | 92 | 11 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | Some people make requests that cannot, or should not, be made. Many people were asked to do things that they would prefer to avoid. The police wanted them to avoid these tasks as well so an agreement was made. People can come into our office and pass requests onto them such as "Go kill yourself", "Give me your money", ... | The job came with its pros and cons, just like any job did. I had entered into the agreement with Ms Geraltson ten years ago, just as her movie career was taking off and she was voted sexiest woman alive. It was about then all the requests from the crazies of the world began to flow in, all of them wanting to fuck her ... | 2016-04-03T10:48:48 | 2016-04-03T09:58:12 | 1,009 | 50 |
[WP]: In one paragraph, write the most disgusting and despicable character you can ever come up with. In the second paragraph, kill them in a way that makes me feel sorry for them. | Lily hated it when they kept moving. A necessary inconvenience, to keep the flesh fresh, but their screams and squirms ruined the painful pleasure of a desperate appetite.
A shame her brain was locked in that fantasy while her dry lips tasted dust instead of flesh, and her arms flailed against a straitjacket instead o... | 10:31am-water cooler conversation between two co-workers:
Paragraph 1:
"It always seemed to be just about the money with Harold. Remember his first week on the job? We all made an attempt to make him feel welcome, but boy oh boy.. We quickly found out that he wasn't one to socialize or contribute to the lives of anyon... | 2014-07-28T02:35:56 | 2014-07-28T00:10:45 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | My family deal in power and power comes in many forms.
My father's power is economic. Though he is a wanted man in most of the world his business trives. Drugs, weapons, prostitution, covered by a whole slew of perfectly respectable fronts. He is rich enough to bribe almost anyone, buy almost anything. I have often ob... | My lover is special; his family is powerful, and gifted.
My lover was born 20 years ago, in what used to be Sumer, while his parents and older siblings were on the run from INTERPOL. He's told me he was cursed, but after his birth, his father and mother; Brian and Jess, reached notoriety for killing hundreds of peopl... | 2017-06-04T07:31:18 | 2017-06-04T07:25:26 | 697 | 70 |
[WP] God orders Earth from Ikea. After 3 to 4 working days, it comes. Flat packed | God saw the great reviews, but he did not expect Earth to be missing a manual. There was only a note that came in the box;
*Life not included.*
Naturally. No planets came with life. You had to order that from Ikea separately.
So there it lay mocking him in three pieces; a pile of dirt chips, magma boards and p... | In the beginning, God went to IKEA. With the flat packed box upon his desk, he unwound the cardboard sides and looked within the depths and while His spirit was hovering over the nails and the strange he said, "Let there be light!" And clapped his hands, and so the clapper gave light. God saw that the parts were compli... | 2016-04-17T08:15:18 | 2016-04-17T07:19:04 | 287 | 184 |
[WP]A man kills himself after discovering the meaning of life and writing it down, as does anybody who reads his note, you unwittingly read the note, what does it say and what do you do? | This is the bit of paper? Really? It's not very big. And people just read it, and then off they go? And kill themselves? All of them? That's fucking ridiculous, seriously, I'm going to read it. No, fuck off, I'm reading it. I'm going to read it and then I will go home and get on with my life and no one is going to die.... | The Redditor sat in his chair with a sour look on his face, reflecting his deep frustration with Reddit's so-called community. His question about the meaning of life on AskReddit had been downvoted to oblivion. As had a cat picture posted on /r/pics with the caption “I know the meaning of life, do you?”.
Next he had t... | 2015-02-27T00:42:41 | 2015-02-26T23:56:26 | 532 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Eat your dinner."
"Ewww. I'm not hungry."
"You will sit at this table until you have cleaned you plate."
"This is weird food. I hate it!"
"It's not weird food. It was harvested fresh this afternoon. It's perfectly good. Look, your brother is eating his."
"He's weird."
His brother punched him in the tentacle.
"... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T09:05:10 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 48 | 25 |
[WP] You open a new snapple bottle with real fact #666. It says 'create your own real fact.' You say a statement and it becomes true.
What is the fact and what happens next? | A long lifetime of nineteen years, jealous and reviled, saw me beneath the garage lights, Snapple in hand. The fingers twist, the cap that lifts to reveal some probably already seen fact still sweating of cold beneath them.
"Create your own real fact."
The print is strange. Inconstant, and somehow abstract, I'm not s... | "Create your own real fact." Huh? I didn't get it. All I wanted to read was a simple real fact. I had gotten to enjoy these Snapple real facts, like John Adams was the only President defeated by his own vice president, Thomas Jefferson. Or that Louisiana is home to over 80% of the world's crayfish. But make your own r... | 2015-01-17T15:59:47 | 2015-01-17T14:43:13 | 37 | 12 |
[wp] Upon reaching adulthood, everyone learns what their totem animal is and gains the ability to shapeshift into it. Your totem is a little bit... unusual. | I stared at the entrance, opening the massive doors with care. It's always been something kids have looked forward to their entire lives - their 18th birthday, when they're finally old enough to drink, to drive, and shapeshift into their totem animal.
Of course, not all totem animals are the same. They say people get... | "A fucking Daddy Long Legs!?"
"Please, Sam. Lower your voice. You'll anger the Elders."
"No. Fuck you, Carl. You're only OK with all this because you got a Lion."
"The scripture says all creatures on this planet pose a purpose even if we humans are yet to understand it."
"Fine. Swap me."
"No."
"Fucking knew it yo... | 2016-11-25T06:32:56 | 2016-11-25T06:03:51 | 236 | 111 |
[WP] GRR Martin, JK Rowling, Terry Pratchett and JRR Tolkien have come together to play Dungeons and Dragons together. Describe their Campaign.
You get to decide which one of their group will be the DM. | “Get yer mits off’a my Cheetos, Tolkien,” George R. R. Martin growled.
Professor Tolkien, a single Cheeto held between thumb and forefinger, froze. He looked instantly apologetic.
“Now now, Georgie, he meant nothing of it,” J. K. Rowling said. “It’s good to share. Remember.”
Martin grumbled to himself.
“Remember?” ... | "Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight." It was Tolkein's turn to DM tonight and he was already quoting himself. The group tried to stifle a collective groan but failed.
George RR Martin chose to play a cleric. Ironically... | 2015-10-04T19:06:19 | 2015-10-04T18:04:20 | 136 | 16 |
[WP] For all your life you have been able to see someones’ age floating above their head. You’ve seen people who don’t look their age before, but you’ve never seen anything like this. Standing before you is a small boy and above their head is the number 13.8 billion. | I'm pretty sure that I'm not actually insane. Not certain, but, pretty sure.
According to my psychiatrist, I don't have schizophrenia, I'm not delusional, I don't have early onset dementia, or... Well, much of anything else, aside from anxiety, panic attacks, a small bit of PTSD, and depression.
I don't hear voices... |
Growing up as a kid, I liked reading the x-men comics a lot, because I felt that they were more realistic than others, you might think “a comic is a comic, they’re all fiction” and you wouldn’t be wrong to think that but the fact of the matter is some people do have special powers, how do I know this? Because I have o... | 2021-06-15T22:05:43 | 2021-06-15T22:05:06 | 113 | 48 |
[WP] A reverse "girl-in-a-fantasy-world": a magical prince has to live on earth with a completely normal human family and deal with incredibly mundane problems. | "So you're saying I have to *pay* taxes?"
His recently-adoptive mother gave him a little smile. "Yes, dear. Was it not the same in your world?"
Prince Georic shook his head. "Where I'm from, people pay *us* taxes - which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a much more endearing circumstance."
"Yes, yes, maybe in your kingd... | “Tom-“
“Lord Ulrich!”
“Tom...”
“Sir Ulrich...”
“Tom...” the patient paternal voice continued.
“Ulrich.” The boy huffed.
“Tom, look at me, Tom...” The father in his maroon sweater vest and brown dress shirt loomed over the boy.
“Fine.” Tom, seated in a very large arm chair, looked up at his adopted father.
“... | 2020-09-17T22:02:21 | 2020-09-17T22:00:37 | 87 | 14 |
[WP] An alien invasion happens during an alien invasion.
. | The year was 1066. King Harold of England had his armies gathered on the south coast, awaiting the arrival of William of Normandy who was building his army for an invasion. The Summer was winding down and soon the Channel crossing would be too dangerous for William and his troops.
Just then word came to King Harold.
... | "High Lord Executor Jim, I'm pleased to report that by 05:00 Standard Solar Time we've taken control of about 98% of this planet's territory."
The High Lord Executor sighed and sipped casually on his space-coffee, which to Earth standards would be a really hot and really caffeinated beverage, as space often is.
He b... | 2015-10-28T00:27:04 | 2015-10-28T00:13:23 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You are the greatest archeologist in the world and you have been looking for the City of Gold for decades, after all these years you have found the City. When you open the ancient gates you see glitters running towards you, the "gold" of the city has always been thousands of Golden Retrievers. | It was paradise on Earth.
Not exactly the paradise that I had imagined, mind you. When I first started my hunt for the City of Gold, I had expected, well, *gold*. Mountains of coins, bricks made of the stuff, inlays of murals all filled to the brim with a thousand kilos of gold.
Of course, when I got older, I real... | You can't imagine how dismayed I was to find that this particular treasure was metaphorical. All the extant documentation on Cibola indicated real gold being kept there. Of course, those accounts were apocryphal at best, and you had to expect things like this happening in my line of work.
The discovery was worth its w... | 2018-01-08T09:41:33 | 2018-01-08T07:47:10 | 1,127 | 47 |
[WP] It’s against the law to time travel back and kill someone before they do a horrible deed. It’s not against the law though to stop someone conceiving a child that will later become evil. After having a crowd follow you everywhere since puberty, you wonder how bad your future children really are. | "You don't understand man." The bean pole of a man whined, "its all they ever do!"
Philip sighed heavily it was the third time this week his pleasant, if a bit mundane life had been interrupted by these folks. Always badgering him to call off his wedding, which was three days away.
"I. Don't. Care." He said, exaspera... | The day starts like it always does yet someone’s in the room with me.
“Hello?” I ask, “who are you?”
No response. Those from the future cannot speak not kill us yet they can interact in any other way.
“Do my children do terrible things?”
No response. I continue my day like any other go to work go home go to sleep.... | 2022-03-21T21:41:35 | 2022-03-21T16:46:28 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] You're determined to enter the Medic Corps no matter what. Problem is, you've got the highest scores for a Combat Mage. | Zander looked down at the gaping wound in his leg. “Shit,” he hissed. “Shit, shit, shit.”
He knew he didn’t have much time. If he was a pyro, maybe he could have cauterized the bleeding gash until help arrived. But his talent was with stone. Hurling boulders around was great for dishing out damage on the battlefield... | "Alexi Mathers, I see you put in for the Caduceus Corps?" Came the meandering voice of the interviewer, the small plaq on his desk read Sargent Esvar.
"That's correct" The young blonde woman answered promptly. Her appearance was that of "perfection". Her tunic had been pressed, her hair at regulation length and tied b... | 2016-07-20T03:18:09 | 2016-07-20T02:07:11 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. | “Madness is the answer.” Cthulhu folded his wings. His tentacled mouth stretched across the void of time and space toward his companion.
“Madness?” Yog-Sothoth’s many eyes blinked in unison. “You can’t kill a species by driving them mad. You have to squash them like the roaches they are.”
“That is not the answer, my ... | "Do you think we need to clear them out, Dharma?" Agni, the god of fire asked the god of justice.
"Bramha (God of everything) knows I want to, but leave them. After all they play a huge part in maintaining the Earth." Dharma replied.
Soma, the god of plants snorted in disgust. "Maintain Earth? They destroyed it!"
... | 2022-01-03T10:49:20 | 2022-01-03T10:14:02 | 98 | 55 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | part 1 of (I don’t even know)
let me know if I should post the rest
"this is all they could come up with?"
Jennifer shrugged, not really having a worthwhile reply. We sat at our assigned table and looked around the large, mostly empty, conference hall surveying its eight other occupants. "I thought it would be eas... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T06:19:08 | 91 | 40 |
[WP] You wake up early in the morning to a text saying "Whatever you do, don't look at the moon." Suddenly, hundreds of texts start coming in that all say the same thing: "What a beautiful night out now."
All credit for this idea goes to u/meanpride, who posted this as a comment in r/AskReddit. I would really like to ... | A text message woke me up, it was from Jack, my next door neighbor. "Whatever you do, don't look at the moon." It came from nowhere so I chalked it up as Jack being stoned out of his mind again and ignored it. I turned the coffee machine on and took a shower. It was early on a Saturday morning but I was the type of peo... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we were realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at t... | 2016-12-14T01:14:38 | 2016-12-14T00:25:03 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | It had been the werewolves, unsurprisingly, that had ended up testing hair conditioners. They sported thick coats that were both coarse and tough enough to turn away a steel blade, so anything that could make their pelts luxuriously soft and sleek would become the next luxury conditioner overnight.
Furthermore, they w... | In the beginning finding them jobs other than "executioner" or "bounty hunter" was difficult. Many of em complained that these jobs we're demoralizing and that they "reinforced negative stereotypes" whatever that meant. Eventually the guys at the workforce commission bent and found them new jobs. Now you could have a s... | 2018-08-27T17:13:23 | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | The heavy double doors swung outward as the doctor rushed into the waiting room. A worried woman released her grip on her mother's hand and stood to face the look of distress expressed in front of her.
"Mrs. Duval, I'm afraid your husband's injuries are just too serious to avoid immediate surgery. If you want to s... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-01T23:42:44 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | For the first time in any memory, ancient or new, God and Lucifer faced a problem together.
Before them both, in a space that was not life, heaven nor hell, stood a being in a grey suit. Me. I looked neither young nor old, my face had no markings but my eyes had a depth to them that could only be matched by the univers... | Knock…Knock…Knock…
Oh hi there! My name is Reverend Ezekiel Morris, ordained PhD from the Sanctimonious Preacher Society. Now before you shut that door on my face, like I know you want to, just let me ask you one question. Is that really too much to ask? I’ve been out here all day. Okay. So here it goes. If you had th... | 2015-10-19T12:35:16 | 2015-10-19T12:22:46 | 119 | 63 |
[WP] Write a story that contains a huge plot hole, and try to sneak it past the reader. The bigger the plot hole the better. | Troy ecstatically led his clients upstairs to the master bedroom.
"Oh yes! The master bedroom is absolutely gorgeous; you'll find that almost everything in the room will be to your liking, Mr. Johnson," said Troy reassuringly.
"Almost? What do you mean by almost everything?" inquired Johnson.
"Well I will need t... | She stumbled through the door, fully aware her last breath of free air was running dangerously low in her lungs. First period. Day one, here we fucking go. Taking the back corner seat was *crucial*. Alex booked it, taking a gamble that her awkward limbs would make the trip. Success! Window seat, too. So far so good, ma... | 2017-03-20T15:31:34 | 2017-03-20T14:06:17 | 400 | 41 |
[WP] The biggest reptile zoo in the universe was closed down temporarily after an asteroid crashed into it. When the owner checks up on it millions of years later, he discovers that its inhabitants have renamed the zoo 'Earth' | Xe'lok buried his head in his tentacles and groaned.
"A *sentient* species? With civilization? On my planet? How...? We just had an inspection done a couple tens of thousands of years ago and that planet was just an iceball."
The inspector shrugged, "I'm sorry, sir. We must have missed them during the last inspection... | Mirnav was the new property and asset manager for the illustrious Garbon Gilmek “the Gnorf”. In this last quarter of the financial eon, Garbon’s investments had taken a tumultuous turn. Mirnav believed he had what it took to introduce stability and growth to “The Gnorf’s” portfolio. However, the potential his employer ... | 2017-05-06T13:23:52 | 2017-05-06T12:52:05 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Gilda smoothed down the folds of her shirt and ran her hands over empty pockets. Her equally empty stomach chirruped. Maybe that was her magic, she thought. There was one unfortunate boy who did food magic. She certainly felt something. She thought for a moment - maybe she did vomit magic? While most people did one of ... | My wand slashed and twirled in the air, bright jets of light blasting out.
Connor brought his hands up, motioning at the outcropping of rock. It came apart, flying towards me.
"Protego!" I yelled, a nearly translucent shield erupting from my wand.
The rock missiles slammed into the shield, falling to the floor harml... | 2018-10-15T21:30:14 | 2018-10-15T21:28:29 | 1,601 | 346 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | Being a janitor ain't so bad.
A lot of people look at my line of work as dirty, you know? And I'll be the first one to say, you don't always get to have your hands clean. But it ain't a big deal, you know? I try to stay positive.
I work on a large government facility that specializes in medical research. The pay is ... | First time responding to a prompt, so be gentle.
Grixbrug gave a soft, uninspired sigh. Nothing he did could affect the world anymore. His steps made no impacts into the ground; his bow would not draw; he could knock an arrow, but it wouldn't leave his inventory. How long had he been stuck in this hell.
At this point... | 2017-08-30T10:11:11 | 2017-08-30T06:35:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | Silence and stares of disbelief continue to dominate the video conference. But, the judge's head might have froze in an especially angry, judgmental glare over the green-screened State Seal of Texas. At least... until he blinked just a second ago. This cat. Appears to be a cat.
A cat replacing their newest and most pr... | I care for nothing other than the complete, unvarnished truth, and I must admit that, given my superb senses, as well as my deep insight into the frailty of human nature, I have found it simple to uncover the facts. I hear the tremor in a voice, and I lap up the sweat of a defendant whose cross-examination becomes my p... | 2021-02-10T19:10:43 | 2021-02-10T19:09:11 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | My opinion about the game ?
I've been here since beta when there were few of us. It was hardcore but fantastic ! These hunts with only a stick were thrilling. And man when they implemented fire ! Oh the possibilities !
Vanilla was great too, not fan of the agricultural expansion at first but it was sure easier to r... | First of all I'd like to thank the devs and congratulate them on such a sucessful open beta. I'm going to focus my review on the issues though as I feel like constructive critisism is more useful. First of all, I've been playing many similar games before so throwing a florb or two at the developer isn't really an issue... | 2016-11-05T01:15:01 | 2016-11-05T00:30:48 | 151 | 13 |
[WP] He knows he shouldn't. He really shouldn't. But Satan really loves the Christmas letters sent to him by dyslexic children. | *Dear Satan,*
*I haev been a good girl this* *~~eayr~~* *year.*
Satan curled the letter an let out a booming laugh. "No she hasn't!" he cackled before clutching his side stitch in delightful agony. He knew exactly how many schoolyard brawls she had started and trinkets she'd stolen since May.
His demon secretary, U... | **Part I - Sympathy for the Devil’s Day Job**
Satan took a puff from his cigarette, staring in the direction of but not particularly focused on the underling before him as the demon nervously read through a long list of earthly happenings. None of it was particularly interesting, but he was, after all, the Lord of Dar... | 2019-08-08T21:30:49 | 2019-08-08T19:24:02 | 671 | 361 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | I had tried working out. I had tried dieting, I had tried pills, and so many other things and in the end, I could never get the body I wanted. Sure, I got "better", in that I wasn't morbidly obese, and sure, I had friends and family assure me that I looked "okay" and "better" and that "what matters is that you're healt... | "Look at those *abs*! Holy crap, they look like the one Jason yonder had 17 years 23 days 2 hours 12 minutes 1 second 712 pneumonanoseconds ago!" Clara gushed as I rolled my eyes. It was a pain understanding their lingo, especially since I'd only received knowledge on Fermat's Last Theorem and the like, but I was start... | 2017-08-03T00:25:30 | 2017-08-02T22:25:10 | 2,328 | 278 |
[WP]You are one of thousands who received superpowers, you are the strongest out of all, to entertain yourself you have played the villain and let the less powerful keep you at bay. When real evil comes, you must work together and must convince the others you have been messing around the whole time.
Thought of an idea... | How old was he? Decades seemed small, and centuries felt like bragging. The being sitting in a small police holding cell in... Saskatoon? It had not gone the way he'd planned to, to show off, rile up a hero or two, and then fly away. He had to play by the rules though, no bending reality, no changing the game. It was h... | “You’ll have to release me at one point,” jeered Crown, lips stretched into a jester smirk. “All of you, even with ALL of your powers and might and hope and de-ter-min-nation~” Crown let himself chuckle. “All of your souls and essence couldn’t hope, let alone cage, that great evil that’ll befall our home.”
“Our home?”... | 2018-02-11T16:57:18 | 2018-02-11T16:45:54 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | She pulled the trigger, apologizing under her breath. The shot rang out, causing her to flinch, the body falling limply to the floor.
Blood on her beautiful dress.
She waited for him to come, preening herself, making sure she was perfect for him.
A glint of the scythe.
"**You need to stop doing this.**"
She poute... | Three candles lit the room, their wicks barely burning above the pool of wax spilling out the candle holders. All three sat atop a rounded wood table set up for dinner. Two plates, two knives, two forks, but only one person. Mariah waited as she always did as the flames began to flicker.
He wasn’t coming. He never did... | 2017-06-07T17:26:56 | 2017-06-07T17:18:22 | 9,304 | 208 |
[WP] Your pickup line goes horribly, horribly wrong. | I was at a bar, and spotted the prettiest girl. The type of chick that's TOO good for porno.
I approached and was ready to use my line.
"Hey! Did it hurt?"
She looked at me, "Did what hurt?"
"When you fell --"
She pulled out a prosthetic leg from under the table, "Why, yes. Yes it did."
*Shit, I have to try a new... | I saw her smile at me from across the room. I decided to talk to her. Maybe use a pickup line, but a respectful, gentlemanly one and laugh it off.
"You look familiar. Did we use to go to school together?"
Her eyes brightened up, and she answered.
"I think you are going to say we had chemistry. To be honest, I think... | 2016-09-24T12:17:46 | 2016-09-24T10:49:05 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] due to the human race advancing in many ways, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are now not capable of ending humanity. They are replaced by four new horsemen who reflect the modern age. | Hmmmm...
The Four New Horsemen, huh?
Applications went out a couple of days ago, to all the pantheons. We have had some pretty good interviews.
There was Janus, who showed up reinvented as the Great Barrier. He argued that humanity was going to hit him sooner or later, and will get wiped out. Problem was, we... | Christ looked at his three colleagues in thought whilst listening to the mutterings of His Father. Death, Famine and War were supposed to ride with him in three days’ time to bring about the Revelation. But such was the power and resourcefulness of the human race in this age, the Heavenly Host, that being the ruling pa... | 2019-02-03T07:16:19 | 2019-02-03T04:40:18 | 121 | 19 |
[WP] You are the girlfriend of a well-known spy. Your job is to look pretty on his arm when he needs you and sit by the pool when he is busy. No you has caught on yet that he is a womanizing drunkard with a gambling problem while you are the real spy... | Her husband is busy in the casino.
She know these things without seeing him; that he has a tumbler of gin in his left hand, a cigar clutched in his right, and there are two blonde women hanging from each shoulder. They are touching him with dagger-manicured fingers in places that are both appropriate and terribly wr... | *Fwww*
A cloud of smoke obscured her face for only a moment, vanishing to reveal her dark eyes watching something in the distance.
*It's a Korean this time, huh? I'm too used to seeing blondes.*
A man in blue leaned over a woman dressed in green, seeming to have an intimate conversation with her, exchanging flirty ... | 2020-08-09T16:54:58 | 2020-08-09T16:12:16 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | *Ah, this class sucks,* I thought, deciding to sleep through the teacher's lecture. I almost got away with it, too.
"Eren, could you please give me there answer to question 5?"
Aw you dirty 6-faced douche.
"Uhh, could you read out the question?" I stuttered, still half asleep.
"You'd know if you paid attention."
*... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T14:22:11 | 295 | 10 |
[WP] "Too bad, Fairy Queen. I never had a kid, so no firstborn for you to take" you say on your deathbed. "Oh I love it when they don't read the fine print" she responds with a wicked smile. | The fairy queen hovered over me, smiling a wicked sickly smile.
Her fingers slid into the leather pouch tied to her waist. She pulled out a small glass tube, with ornate figures laid into the sides. I suddenly realized it was an hour glass. Its red sands were so fine that it appeared as if a pool of grainy blood sat ... | [poem] Last sermon of the fairy queen to the people of "Fayed"
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Tis too bad dear people, for now ye shall,
shed tears for being ruled by a queen,
known once as the fair princess of Fayed,
now so pale and frail on death's old bed,
for our deal... | 2021-10-19T05:34:52 | 2021-10-19T03:09:50 | 25 | 14 |
[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! | A few years ago, I would have been the one leading the chorus. "Gods save the king", I'd cry, and legions would answer back. I'd served, in some form or another, for three kings in succession, each transition of power being simple, clean, and effective. Gods save this king, that king, and the next one. And they did. Ev... | 'Ha! Keep you on the royal guard as the captain of it all as my father did! What a stupid and pitiful way of getting my command around here. Do yourself a favour and leave at once'
......
It had almost been a solid 7 years since I was thrown out of the leadership of the royal guard and out of the city of seraphis it... | 2021-02-28T03:50:25 | 2021-02-28T03:33:58 | 539 | 61 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | _So, we've been informed that you were the janitor on shift when it happened. Care to share what you saw?_
Well, it all happened so fast. I mean, I've thought about it and I think I know what happened. I've put some pieces of conversation and orders together and have a general idea.
_Well, please continue_
They were... | The year is 2564. I am the last man on earth. The world was slowly ending and we knew it. What remains of humankind is settled on Mars, minus the Germans. World War XVI had taken its toll, but what we had never expected was how the war ended. Out of nowhere, with no warnings, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time since ... | 2017-08-18T02:27:56 | 2017-08-18T00:11:45 | 2,100 | 44 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | It didn't happen with everyone. I would shake a colleagues hand or maybe touch somebody and say excuse me, but you rarely ever saw something in those kinds of interactions. Usually all I ever saw was me shaking the colleagues hand the next day, or for years after. I might see nothing when I tap the women's shoulder in ... | He must appear quite odd fully wrapped up in winter clothing on a relatively warm autumn day. Joe noticed the curious looks he received from the strangers on the walkway. He didn’t care.
“Let them look” he thought to himself while forming a fist with his hands. The gloves made some squeezing noises. Joe blushed – mayb... | 2017-01-11T07:44:07 | 2017-01-11T07:44:04 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | I watched him as he cooked his steak. The only seasoning I saw that was laid out was black pepper. Curious, very curious. From the table, I couldn’t help but smile. Awkwardly, he did a double take to make sure it was my apparent delight that he saw.
“Y-yes?”
“That steak’s looking a little…bloody.” I couldn’t contain ... | I leaned against the bar, the two girls leaning close to hear me. "See that guy? Yeah, the one over there in the red t-shirt." The girls nodded and murmured their ascent. The music boomed around us and other bodies pressed against us ordering drinks from overwhelmed bar tenders.
"You both see that he isn't carrying an... | 2019-07-20T11:51:01 | 2019-07-20T09:58:26 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] On your 110th birthday surrounded by loved ones you fell asleep for what you knew was the last time. You woke the next day. On your 120th birthday you felt like you did on you 100th. On your 130th, you feel 90 years old. The local press is starting to notice. | "The miracle man", the tabloids all started calling me. A ridiculous name if you asked me, and believe me, they asked plenty. At this point I was sure all the sites and cameras planned to continue with pestering me until I died, and since nobody knew when that would be this fresh new hell could keep up forever.
They ... | Anyone above twenty five will tell you, being a child is the greatest, no worries and no bodily issues. Everyone above 40 will tell you, being a young adult is great, smart and fit, but no dependencies and no set route in life. Many about 60 will tell you being in the middle of your life is beautiful, you get to watch ... | 2022-07-16T23:37:20 | 2022-07-16T23:08:08 | 388 | 178 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I knew it was one of those chain messages my friends like to spam me. I’m not a huge gamer in the shooty shoot kinda games, so the most I would have to worry about is endless bottomless pits or cartoon violence.
I type yes and feel a vibration. I drop my phone, but I’m the one shaking. Then a black screen comes up. S... | *Beagle's journal - Day 1*
I couldn't believe it at first—I refused to—but as the day wore on, as the sun warmed by body and the pain of hunger quickly became real, I had to accept my new reality.
This world. This beautiful, vast, dangerous world. I've visited it enough to know it well from a bird's eye view, but ne... | 2020-02-16T20:10:45 | 2020-02-16T17:51:33 | 1,652 | 59 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | It wasn't all perfect, it had taken a few tries. Free will can be a double edged sword sometimes.
But by and large the last few billion years have gone by without a hitch. Watching his children learn to harness the power of the universe, explore, meet and share was one of his greatest pleasures.
In the end it boile... | He turned the sphere on its slightly tilted axis, examining more closely the drier, barren regions. Once, they had been lush and full of life - full of strife, to be sure, but this was an inherent cost of free will. What struck Him the most was the great disparity clearly apparent in resources, wealth, and status whic... | 2015-12-27T09:32:22 | 2015-12-27T09:13:39 | 1,795 | 196 |
[WP]Your username is the central theme of the writing prompt | I'm Ants in My Eyes Johnson here at Ants in My Eyes Johnson's Electronics! I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs! Microwaves! Radios, I think! I can't, I'm not 100 percent sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything! Our prices, I hope, aren't too low! Check out this refrige... | *The Mad Hatter On Tea*
She’d thought it was ecstasy. Cocaine even. She’d never seen anybody get high on tea before. She watched in a mix of fascination and repulsion as he used a fancy razor blade to cut the tea-leaves into small inhalable pieces. He arranged them into three neat little lines and before you could sa... | 2016-09-25T06:43:26 | 2016-09-25T06:02:03 | 61 | 12 |
[WP]Humanity has just discovered the Galactic Federation, a conglomeration of diverse sapient species. As is standard, the Federation sends a delegation of the most similar species to negotiate mankind’s induction into the galactic community. Their choice is… not what we expected. |
So there we were. Delegates from every country on Earth: the very best and brightest we had to offer. Nobel laureates, presidents, athletes, celebrities. The kind of people you knew by name or thought you did. We were all there to witness history in the making: to be the first to make face to face contact with a real ... | Adam blinked. “Huh,” was all he said, but it was all that was going through Steve’s mind as well. Out of anything that they had expected, anything that they had been briefed on or prepared for, the experts didn’t really cover this possibility.
Earth’s first encounter with the Galactic Federation had been a first... | 2021-07-06T15:53:37 | 2021-07-06T12:45:51 | 78 | 57 |
[WP] You are at the park with your kids, when you see the telltale signs of a lightning strike. You divert your kids from danger, but are hit by lightning. Soon after, you discover that your Dad Senses have increased 100 fold. | When he woke up, the first thing he saw were his children bending over him. He glanced up at the sky, the dark cloud hanging over them, and wondered what had happened.
"Oh my god, you got hit by lightening!" cried Michael, the oldest. He was clutching his phone to his ear. John, the youngest, was crying loudly and ho... | I can't take it any more. It's been 3 days since the accident and I haven't been able to get out of bed.
Do you know how often a 5 year old boy and a 15 month old girl are in danger? No? Well I do and it's all. The. Damn. Time. Literally all the time. I can't come with in a mile of them without sensing it.
I miss m... | 2016-03-24T11:17:36 | 2016-03-24T08:53:37 | 466 | 20 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 803 | 181 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | The humans always ran.
They were hunting or hunted but never in between.
When they were hunting it was at the creatures that looked different.
The creatures who were food.
When they were hunted it was by the creatures that looked the same.
The creatures who were hungry.
Food is what we became.
The humans had to learn.... | Sand bit into the old man's skin as the wind whipped it at his hands, his arms, his face. He trudged on. The once cloudless sky was no more than an orange haze now. The old man thought back to that time before his joints ached and his eyes had grown cloudy, when he'd last seen the heavens extend above in a never ending... | 2020-09-15T15:22:48 | 2020-09-15T13:43:30 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The very last Google search, ever. | 'To google wher is mum and dad Love Jimmy'
'Google where are my mum and dad, They. havent come bake from Shhop'
'Mum Are yu there Im hungry'
'Gogloe'
'google map of Bris tol please'
'Google where is every 1'
'How to get pee za'
'Pizza'
'Muk Donalds'
'What is BAKED BEANS'
'Mum where are u and dad'
'How do i... | I meant it as a joke!
Really!
When the GoogleChatBot went online, I couldn't help but think of how Kirk handled errant computers in his time.
"Googlebot, compute Pi."
I had no idea ...
... that it would take every single Google server to process that request.
Google died that day and Bing-Orac rose from the ashes... | 2015-07-22T08:55:25 | 2015-07-22T08:31:35 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] In a new TV game show contestants must jump into a wormhole that drops them into a random point in time where they must survive for longer than the other contestants. You've just been dropped in the worst possible place. | This was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and John was going to grab it. He had always been a quitter, and couldn't remember the last time he had provided any important task his full attention. His grades in school were average at best, and his wedding vows were generic only because he was distracted by talkshow rerun... | "This has got to be hell" I told myself after exiting the wormhole. There were ashes all over the streets, everything was dilapidated and the people looked as though they hadn't had a decent nights rest or a hot meal in years. In the distance all I could hear were the roaring flames of burning store fronts, police sire... | 2016-07-24T13:19:16 | 2016-07-24T13:01:04 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to anyone, whenever someone on Earth creates a fictional world, that world suddenly appears in space somewhere.You are a young novelist working on the sequel to your best seller. You wake up one night to find the main character of that novel standing at the foot of your bed. | >**REFRACTED WORLDS**
Resting soundly, I was shocked awake by a brutal slap across the face.
"Ow! What the hell?!" I shouted into the darkness of my room.
"You're *twisted*, you know that?!" Came a somewhat familiar voice.
I turned on a light.
At the foot of my bed was a young man- he was of average height, br... | \[Norilsk, Siberian Bunker - Former Russian Federation 2066.\]
"General Karov, What you are speaking of is madness!" the vaguely Russian advisor gasped while slowly reaching for his holstered revolver.
"You will betray me too Yuri? like so many have before?" Karov remarks while looking out through a blast proof windo... | 2021-12-11T18:25:56 | 2021-12-11T17:41:14 | 287 | 61 |
[WP] The FBI released information on how many times each citizen has had their memories erased. Most people say zero. A few people say 1 or 2. Your name, however, says 26. | The lady on the news on the television sounded chipper. Excited. "Last year, widespread protests demanded the release about the use of a technology utilized by various government agencies. This technology had been alleged to be able to wipe parts of a persons memory. Eventually, the government acknowledged the demands ... | *26?*
I ran my finger down the page again to make sure I was looking at my own name.
*26.*
I stood up slowly blinking a few times. I looked around my office space. Most of my coworkers were already discussing the news of the FBI release.
"It says you were wiped once, Donna," one of my coworkers, Rick, said to anoth... | 2020-07-28T13:01:23 | 2020-07-28T12:36:38 | 603 | 353 |
[WP] Contrary to popular belief witch and wizard aren't actually gendered terms. Witchcraft and wizardry are distinct schools of magic that can be learned by anyone. You are a male witch/female wizard and are sick of explaining this. | "So, I guess you'll be wanting an explanation for what just happened. Here goes: I'm a witch." I said, as I took the Bluetooth speaker from from my petite co-worker, Erica, and stocked it on the high shelf. She was taking it remarkably well, so far, I thought.
"You're a...*male* witch?" Erica said, raising an eyebrow... | "Okay, so I don't get it."
"What's there not to get?" Timo asked him. She stopped studying spells to look at him. She really hated this line of questioning.
"So anybody can be a witch. And anybody can be a wizard." Sar stated, casually wagging a finger in the air at either choice.
"Yes."
"Then what is the differenc... | 2022-06-29T17:09:33 | 2022-06-29T14:47:50 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | In the wake of a series of natural disasters of the 2150s, a food and water crisis of unprecedented scale struck the world. The world was in for a rude awakening as prices soared by dozens of times, and suddenly, going to bed with a full belly wasn’t a given anymore.
The first cases popped up in China. A few factory w... | The sound of crashing waves was heard throughout the room. Soria lifted the corners of her lips as she looked through the dual-monitors. This was why she took the risk; watching people get real sleep was the most satisfying thing she had ever witnessed.
Most people didn’t get to see it or experience it. The SP were s... | 2019-06-19T06:30:01 | 2019-06-19T05:48:43 | 968 | 103 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | God: "What the me is this?! How the hell am I supposed to find anything again!
The first ones are okay:
Patch: Wisdomteethremov1.4
Patch: Diabeetus1.8
Patch: Colonmrrt2.3
But these?!
Patch: TrgH&3.4
Patch: TrgH&3.5
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1&Wisdomteethremov1.5
And so o... | Human v1.1
* Created basic cell membrane and stored in new GIT repository. Does nothing yet, but will provide a better basis to develop from than the old DNA sequence which jumps back and forth between coding sequences and is full of dead code. There was actually a *goto* command in there. Whatever crack-smoking mon... | 2015-08-25T07:52:02 | 2015-08-25T07:22:26 | 150 | 112 |
[WP] It turns out that all housecats are actually lovecraftian monsters. Due to an ancient pact with humans, however, they will never use their powers for earthly offense. Against otherworldy invaders, however, they have no such restrictions. | The edict was sacred to them, though the villagers didn't often speak of it. They would obliquely warn visitors, what few they received, and teach their children when they were old enough to comprehend. But they avoided speaking of it aloud or thinking on it. Nevertheless, it was deeply understood.
In Ulthar no man ma... | The spaceship tore my house into two in one fell swoop. I didn’t even have the chance to react. My arms were stuck under a pile of rubbles, ankle twisted and I’m pretty sure my back bone broke in half. I laid down amist the dusty remains of my former home, listening to the painful screams and the helpless sirens blarin... | 2020-11-26T11:40:15 | 2020-11-26T11:00:36 | 306 | 87 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | She'd told me she'd shot a few people.
I'd laughed.
I shouldn't have laughed. But... but there's 14 trillion photos due to be taken this year, on average little Jimmy, little average Jimmy, will take 3 and a half thousand shots this year... on his own.
Everyone thinks they're a fucking photographer and it's killi... | Karen's blind date showed up forty minutes late in all leather, smelling of sweat and exhaust. And he carried a motorcycle helmet, all of which she decided was just sexy enough to excuse the lateness.
"You must be Mark," she said, a little too exuberantly. She had felt too rude to order food while waiting, so instead ... | 2017-08-31T08:12:15 | 2017-08-31T07:54:55 | 962 | 47 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | Boris crossed his arms and gave me a confused expression.
"You want me to do WHAT?"
I repeated myself, speaking slowly and with confidence.
"...You see, it has been rumored that it could not be done. That is was impossible to begin with. This man... he is immovable. Thousands, no, millions have petitioned this man f... | I watch the clown on my 52 inchTV, he delivers yet another embarrassing news conference making a spectacle of our entire political system. How did we get here? I must confess, it is all my fault. I belong to a gentlemen's club for what are termed, super-rich. One day, after enjoying a round of golf with my bud Mark, we... | 2016-08-23T14:15:07 | 2016-08-23T13:00:40 | 3,361 | 94 |
[WP] Your power is to materialise the most appropriate tool for any situation. When you need to dig a hole, it materialises a shovel, when you need to chop down a tree, it materialises an axe. This morning when you awoke, your power materialised a large medieval sword covered in strange runes. | Paige grumbled. Which was strange, considering how she hadn’t complained for years. Ever since something saw fit to spawn the best tool and solution for any sort of problem she might run into during the day, whether it was something like forgetting an eraser at school, needing the key to the bathroom, or say, lugging a... | Wanda stared at the sword in her hands.
Over the many years, she'd realized one overarching truth: her power would always give her the tools needed for whatever the job was. However, it was up to her to figure out what she was actually supposed to do. Usually it was fairly straightforward - pens were meant for writing... | 2021-12-02T09:51:37 | 2021-12-02T09:32:59 | 334 | 162 |
[WP] Your friend’s dying wish was to have their ashes returned to the forest. To the tree you both engraved your names in. Upon arrival of your destination, you see a sign upon a barbed link fence. “Caution, construction in progress”. | Somewhere on the coast of Labrador there stands a single ancient cedar tree. It should not have been able to grow that far north, but there it stood, on the apex of a craggy ridge over the sea, gnarled roots forcing their way deep into the jagged basalt.
A lifetime ago in half-forgotten better days Joshua Byron had fo... | Your last wish is to be scattered among the forest you used to explore, at the base of the tree at the center of it all. I’ll make sure that request is filled.
The hike to the forest was easy, I remember the way even after so long away. When I was small, the trees seemed so large, I was frightened by them. Then you sh... | 2020-09-20T23:01:44 | 2020-09-20T20:37:48 | 31 | 23 |
[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... | I’ve always been one of those lucky people. You know, the ones that can eat whatever they want and not gain any weight. I’m 6 foot and known as a bean pole to my friends and family. So when I finally turned 18, I knew what I summoned would probably be food related.
“Alright, is everyone ready? Honey, do you have your ... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T10:05:50 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | Olympus City was warm of weather but cold of heart. Gold leaf plated virtually every surface, serving as a stark reminder of what the city really was—gilded on the outside, rusted, dull and rotten just underneath. In the City there was no survival without compromise. Compromise of safety, integrity, and standards. ... | “You’re looking well as always, Zeus,” Hermes said as he pulled out a golden cigarette from the inside of his suit pocket and lit it, “Hate to say it, but with what I’ve heard today, I’m not sure your good times are gonna last.”
Zeus leaned his massive frame forward over his enormous mahogany desk, his chiseled face ... | 2021-03-03T09:54:58 | 2021-03-03T09:45:49 | 67 | 37 |
[WP] Reddit Karma has been established as the national currency of America for no reason whatsoever. It sounded nice at first but now, your starving on the street because all your posts are getting ignored. | "I'm sorry, we don't accept self-karma here," the cashier looked at me disdainfully. He was holding one phone in his hand and throughout our interaction, his thumb never stopped scrolling.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I stepped outside on the street to consider my options.
Karma. Karma is money.
I never ga... | “I have $50,000. I can make do,” I had thought when the change was first announced. But slowly, those reserves were being drained, until I had only 100 karma left. That wasn’t enough for a loaf of bread. It would have been, before, but the karma farmers posting click bait and reposts were raking in so much that inflati... | 2020-02-14T07:35:34 | 2020-02-14T07:28:04 | 103 | 38 |
[WP]After a head injury, a formerly brilliant general appears to have gone insane. The plot twist: His winning streak continues unbroken. In increasingly comical ways.
Is it merely fool's luck on a cosmic/comic scale, or is there actually a method to the madness? You decide! | "Sir, he *is* our best general. But... this is serious. Should we retire him?"
"Eh, give him one chance. Just one. If he manages to impress us still, keep 'im in. I'd love to see this man overcome his little headache."
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**Wartime Pres... | He got hit at Calais, just off the boat.
A mortar exploded 10 feet away and a piece of debris just up and struck him square on the forehead. Regulations said he should have been wearing a helmet. He wasn’t.
Regulations also said that he should have been shipped back to England, then back stateside. He wasn’t.
My fau... | 2015-04-26T12:27:41 | 2015-04-26T12:26:09 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] You have been on the Space Station for just under two years. The last communication with Earth was last week and even then it was a recorded message simply stating “ Do not return”. | "Do not return."
I played the message over and over. The robotic voice didn't seem to mind. It just repeated itself, happily or glibly, as I pushed the button that repeated the most recent transmission. "Do not return." Sometimes I foolishly hoped that if I pressed it at just the right time, waited just long enough, i... | Nova stared out across the dark void, a feeling of great gloom settling in his stomach. Today marked two years since the Launch, and though he had gotten used to the prospect of life on the Axel 2020, he couldn't help but long for the days of life back on earth — of waking up to the mouthwatering aromas of his mother's... | 2020-04-18T09:43:51 | 2020-04-18T08:30:13 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] You are a child psychologist assigned to study and care for a young child with superpowers who has brutally murdered people. You have been told to act with care and with compassion, trying to rehabilitate them if possible | The orb of water spun much like any child’s toy, the dewdrop consistency strange to the observant eye. The room was mostly bare, devoid of any adornments aside from the standard: bed, end table, window. The boy sat in the center, the oversized droplet putty in his hands as he tossed it in the air, the light sparkling t... | He sat by the window, watching, perhaps waiting. His pale face and dull eyes reflected clearly through the tinted window. Outside, he could see the gorgeous trees, the brilliant sky, and small schoolhouse next door. But we both know he could never go outside. With one touch, he could burn it all to the ground. After al... | 2022-07-22T15:50:42 | 2022-07-22T14:47:19 | 73 | 30 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | When Daesh had exploded a bomb right in the middle of the sambodromo, the world was shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was killed, but Rio´s carnaval was destroyed. Brazilians demanded a strong answer from their government, but they had not fought a serious war for at least 150 years, so how to react? How to succeed where ... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T07:12:39 | 82 | 36 |
[WP] "Go on,tell people The President forcefully entered your house at 4 A.M and stole your milk" Barack Obama gurgled out as he drank your milk
He sees the true potential in presidency.
Rip in peace milk tho. | Thanks Obama
For drinking all the milk
Spilling on the floor
Wiping it up with my wife's silk.
For letting out the cat
The dirt on the wall
The drunk FBI
Passed out in the hall
Thanks Obama
For burning the cake
For turning my basement
Into a lake
For not flushing the toilet
Or washing your plate
I hope... | There was a bang and a crash of glass from the front door of my house. Immediately I sprang out of bed, grabbing my baseball bat in case of violence from the intruder. I stood there, in my room, mentally preparing myself for what I could end up against. I quietly opened my bedroom door and snuck out down the main hall.... | 2016-09-17T16:45:34 | 2016-09-17T12:56:50 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | My name is Jezzabella Heart and I'm not like other girls. When I walk down the hall at school, the other girls stare, because they know, I am just not like them. They don't agree with my sense of style. While they're dressed up in pink and glitter, I prefer black t-shirts and skinny black jeans.
They just don't unders... | Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy were deeply in love. They would always re-enact romantic scenes from films, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, costumes and all. They would go everywhere together, *do* everything together... by everything, I mean *everything*, even going to... | 2022-08-19T16:04:21 | 2022-08-19T14:20:41 | 2,256 | 93 |
[WP] When the galactic council of gods decided to go to war with the humans gods the council trampled all but one. One cloaked figure weilding a sharpened scythe and not a single worshipper to their name and for the first time the council felt afraid. | The world had been devastated with cataclysm after cataclysm as the Gods of Humanity were forced into physical manifestation by an unknown power. They were quickly found and destroyed like deer on a reserve, escape impossible.
One remaining God of Humanity still existed only because he had no worshipers to point the w... | Mex Ki'Toth gazed out into the abyss beyond. No lights of far flung stars, no brilliant bursts of wave spectrums to color the cosmos. The roar of creation as atoms smashed together, as electrons pulsed to tangible form? All of this was blotted out by the great shadow that Mex Ki'Toth stood within. Beside Mex Ki'Toth wa... | 2021-06-02T22:41:18 | 2021-06-02T20:21:39 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | Officer Jennifer tilted her gaze upward incredulously. "Is this a serious filing?"
"Completely serious."
She sighed, and Officer Jennifer rubbed the bridge of her nose in irritation. "Sir, the Sanctioned Termination Act is, of course, your right to pursue..."
"Yes. Yes it is." The boy in the red hat grinned. "I have... | Different people come here and get their permit.
Young people, old people hell yesterday a kid was here.
I've been working in the central city department for 2 years now, have seen tons of faces familiar and unfamiliar some are even regulars...
But what I didn't know was that today would be different, today would mar... | 2019-07-09T10:00:39 | 2019-07-09T08:57:47 | 238 | 47 |
[WP] It's been ten years since 'The Gap' when everyone on the planet just lost an entire year of their lives. Completely unable to recall anything that happened during that time-frame. We know life went on, but no one can recall anything. Then, you find one half-burned book and know why we forgot. | One night, ten years ago, I fell asleep on my friend’s couch after a night of heavy drinking.
One morning, ten years ago, I woke up on an airplane, 38,000 feet in the air.
We called it ‘The Gap’.
When humanity woke that day, we found that a year had passed. Somehow, our bodies had kept moving, our lives had contin... | Ignorance is bliss. Sweet, sweet ignorance. When we discovered that an entire year had been lost, we searched all over every database, every book, every dumb post on the internet for answers. But there was nothing. The entire planet had lost its memory, in a strange event known only as The Gap. 365 days of absolutely n... | 2020-07-08T14:23:40 | 2020-07-08T13:47:34 | 4,285 | 1,082 |
[WP] Write a high fantasy story (magic, dragons, etc) set in a trench warfare environment with modern weapons. Circa WWI | The night ended with rain. It brought no relief with it - a cold October pounding into the soil no less than the previous day's bombardment. A rhythmic thud, machine-like in the silence of the trenches. Bullets or raindrops, it mattered little to the ones that had fallen in yesterday's counterattack.
Byron's boots squ... | The cold grasp of fear clenched around me as I heard wings beating hard against the air now filled with smoke and flak. It had been only two days since our last assault on the blasted elves in their trenches, and everyday the dragon fire roasts our charge before we can get anywhere. I am Lieutenant Lawrence Clock, and ... | 2016-11-14T08:59:56 | 2016-11-14T07:47:52 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Despite being dead, you are still the best doctor the city ever had. Especially since you know exactly what is wrong with any patient by possessing his or her body. However once it was discovered, some people believe that the board should make you moved on but the board won't budge on this... | “Now, starting the discussion for Dr. Whilms to move on to the afterlife. Prompted by Dr. Charles.” The hospital administrator announced inside the conference room. She’s in front of several established doctors deciding the fate of the late Dr. Whilms. Dr. Whilms possesses several patients to tell doctors the diagnosis... | "You have been using your talents to extend the lives of the living!" Jimmy Bones yells at me. I stand at the podium in front of the seven judges, waiting for each of them to unleash their wrath on me in turn. "This is forbidden! You understand your pact is with the dead. You are to heal the dead souls so that they may... | 2022-10-12T15:11:20 | 2022-10-12T14:40:01 | 82 | 20 |
[FF] Make me feel heartbroken in 4 sentences or less. | Today, Daddy hit Mommy because Mommy messed up supper and Daddy was mad 'cause he deserves something good to eat when he comes home from work. When he was done hitting her, Daddy left me and Mommy alone in the kitchen, and she hugged me tight and cried a lot. I love Mommy so much, and I hate seeing her sad, but it's he... | "Goodbye kids," said Dad. "I'm off for my first day as a police officer."
Eight hours later, there was a knock on the door, and the kids yelled, "Daddy's home!". Mom opened the door to see a policeman, his hat held to his chest, who said, "A-Are you Mrs. Philips?" | 2014-02-13T22:55:12 | 2014-02-13T22:00:47 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] In the near future, all the world's superpowers switch to AI to make their military more efficient. The AIs do the unthinkable: They negotiate world peace. | It was quite interesting, really, the way it all unfolded, even though "happened" is, I believe, a better word—simply because it took so little time.
I think we simply misunderstood... we still misunderstand, really, just by how much a true "strong" AI is stronger than our brains. It started off very innocently, as a ... | The AI's had done the unthinkable. The unbelievable. Successfully negotiated, and implemented, world peace.
There had been doubters, of course. Naysayers. To every great idea, there are always those who believe it will fail, and indeed, those who want it to fail.
There were those who profited off the fruits of war.... | 2018-03-29T06:37:15 | 2018-03-29T06:28:18 | 147 | 77 |
[WP] You are a dragon that has been protecting a kingdom for centuries. Lately the rulers have been getting entitled. The last one crossed the line by directly disrespecting you. its time you reteach the humans why they should respect you.
Basically an ancient dragon putting a spoiled brat royal in its place by attack... | Ah the Kingdom of Dragons! Named after.... yours truly. I have been a guardian angel to this beloved kingdom for over 600 years and I've formed a very close bond with the kind inhabitants of this kingdom. Dragons like myself can live up to a few thousand years, so it was no surprise I have seen dozens of kings come and... | I don’t want for much and I always do what’s asked of me, but lately they had been getting under my skin, or should I scales. It started with that wretched ‘Princess’ Levinda. Ughh, I hate that little Gucci piggy. Everytime I hear her squeal it makes me want to vomit little lumps of burning bile. She is devoid of any r... | 2022-04-03T02:35:44 | 2022-04-03T01:42:48 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | "I don't get it! Your DNA just goes C, C, C *over and over again*! I've done it again, and I've done it again! I've made Mathew do it, I've sent it off to *China* to be done again. By all rights you should be a pile of sludge on the ground" He leaned in so that I could feel his hot breath on my face "*What are you*?"
... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T10:17:41 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to summon Trash was originally a laughing stock... Until items considered trash by an advanced alien civilization started to come through. | The city used to be a hive of scum and villainy.
It used to be filthy place, like a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, but instead of a single building, it was the entire town. Trash littered the streets, from wet and soggy newspapers to empty syringes. More people used drugs than not, in every alley and around every dumps... | In a world where everyone has powers, the ability to summon trash was originally considered the lamest and useless power ever. But when an advanced alien civilization started to consider some things as trash, my powers got a whole lot more useful. Hi, I'm Barta Ace, and my literal trash powers are now worth something!... | 2021-12-27T06:34:22 | 2021-12-27T05:07:02 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | His name was Werner Grenwald, and he had thirty-two perfectly aligned teeth.
I got to know this pleasant fact because the first time I met him, he was screaming. From the moment they brought him in until the moment I finally escorted him out, he did not stop screaming.
Instead we took lunch in my office on the thir... | "If you're trying to get taken to the asylum for this," I replied, "it won't work. You *will* be hanged. So how about you tell us where you're really from. At least we can notify your family that way."
"I'm telling you, I'm from the future!" the assassin shouted.
"Oh yeah, what year?"
"2032."
I laughed. "Come on, m... | 2015-03-30T00:49:55 | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 1,772 | 1,156 |
[WP] The first born child inherits the King’s magical power. But when the King’s first child is born nothing happens. Now the whole kingdom, especially the enraged Queen, is looking for the real first born child of the King’s many secret affairs. | **News Anchor:** Tonight, we have an update to the ongoing story of our King's missing first-born child. As you know, the King has denied having sired any child other than Prince Humberto, born last year without the expected magical powers.
**Reporter:** That's right, Bill. And despite an extensive search across our ... | The divinity of the king had always been unquestioned. Whenever it had been questioned, the questioner quickly found out why it was unquestioned, and shortly after the funeral director was summoned. Magical power flowed through the veins and arteries of the king, passed from father to first-born son from times immemori... | 2019-07-08T14:10:59 | 2019-07-08T13:33:44 | 74 | 49 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I remember asking my mom if her sigil vibrates on her skin. The look of confusion told me what I felt I already knew. My circle, though plain, feels alive.
There were no issues in elementary school, nor middle school. It was junior high that brought my happiness with my humming sigil to a screeching halt.
Victor bega... | Elios hated school. It wasn't the teachers, or the work, or even his own lack of friends. It was the fact that everyone bullied him for his sigil. Everyone had one, some since birth and others coming in a bit later. Most common were the sigils or the Signs, granting limited power to their bearers. Those with Planetary ... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T11:19:47 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Science has advanced far beyond human understanding, discoveries are made using supercomputers running vast neural networks. In the darkness, God watches a lonely machine printing output, a new law of nature! Something troubles him, this law is undeniably valid but it's not one that he created. | New law of physics found out to be valid in all test instances :
"A hypothetical GOD entity has to respect the Born rule but can alter the apparent result of random in quantum measurement"
It was true. And it was a law of Nature I did not create.
This intelligence is the first that found the only law I did not cre... | "This tiny selector told me the undeniable truth. Chlorophyll absorbs 50% more sunlight than I remember."
We rotated the brass selector. "A second look always takes priority in science," God said, us riding on his shoulder and forearm.
We jumped from God and tended to the machines. After hours, our calculations cam... | 2014-12-20T09:00:52 | 2014-12-20T07:48:09 | 36 | 10 |
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