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[WP] It was supposed to be a routine software upgrade, but now roombas are tracing pentagrams and summoning minor demons all across the country. You work in tech support. | If there is anything that is a surety in this capitalist hellscape we live in, is that exploitation will occur no matter where. It is a given. An inevitability.
A rollout for a simple software upgrade for the roombas resulted in strange ramifications.
The software upgrade itself was not anything major. Just an effici... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 4: Professor Hale v.s. Every Single Roomba)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mrk4lm/wp_it_seemed_like... | 2022-01-30T07:56:03 | 2022-01-30T07:47:40 | 63 | 24 |
[WP] Your spouse has the annoying habit of unexpectedly licking you. When you ask them why they do it, they always reply "just so you know it's really me." You think it's nothing but a cute joke. One day, feeling something is off, you realise your spouse hasn't done it in over three weeks. | I'm a little late to the party but I hope you enjoy!
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What started out as a drunken, silly game when we were dating in college turned into an odd sort of routine for us.
Senior year, blitzed out of our gourds, we tried to lick each other's fa... | “It’s been three weeks,” the man complained to his psychiatrist, “three weeks.” While scribbling some notes onto her pad, the psychiatrist was listening intently. The man continued, “at first I thought it was nothing, but it just kept happening. She would pass by, and not a single lick! Now I know this doesn’t seem lik... | 2018-04-28T21:43:58 | 2018-04-28T21:16:08 | 410 | 66 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It had been 50 years since World War III. America had caused the most damage and knowing them, they'll cause more. So that's when we had the perfect idea. We would fake a Worldwide isolation for 50 years. While they were left alone to rebuild, secretly we would all rebuild together and make a better world. Fresh water,... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T01:39:47 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 46 | 34 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | I enter this small building , goverment type with barred windows and top notch security cameras.
"The room on the right" I am told.
Entering this cold room with one chair I sit.
"Should mankind be saved ?" says a voice over the intercom.
My mind is racing and my feet start to shake, as they normally do when deep in ... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T08:11:26 | 187 | 34 |
[WP] As the leader of a CIA hit squad, you have been tasked with the secret, “extrajudicial” killing of a journalist who is causing problems for the government with his reporting. The problem is, he just won’t die! Every team you send fails. Who is this Clark Kent, guy? | Amanda Ross had never lost a target. That's why the government of the United States trusted her with every unmanageable, unethical, and undoable task. The FBI had recently noticed a trend of activity in a major metropolitan. Otherwise uninteresting, this city had a crime rate well below the national average. What was e... | Its been a long time since i held a trigger. I gave up that life, i was an assassin for a very long time. It still itches when i had to cut my finger to prove my loyalty. At least i didnt have to carry a gun again or so i thought.
The CIA found me and recruited me, my job was to train their agents. They gave me my fr... | 2022-06-08T10:32:59 | 2022-06-07T23:34:16 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] You are a military experiment, brimming with incredible power, subdued and held in a huge prison-like facility.
Describe your thoughts and actions while they experiment on you, and finally as you find out you are being purged before you get a chance to test and show your powers to your creators, to be replaced by... | I could have been a god. At least that's what they told me after the first injection. I was to be the start of a revolution. I had never been able to walk before the serum. So I should have at least been been thankful for that gift. But it's a small freedom when in the end you are still trapped.
It wasn't my fa... | **Can't make a fist. Brain cavity exposed.**
**Can't blink. Can't sing.**
**I can taste the instrument. Touching. My. Brain.**
"Onomaklyton is subdued," a voice calls from the other side of the room. "Several of the restraints are being injected into his medulla. We've never had to use more than two in the past."
A... | 2014-12-02T10:31:08 | 2014-12-02T10:10:48 | 22 | 15 |
[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. | "10" I said unconsciously.
My friend tore his eyes away from the girl walking past us down the hall and stared at me in surprise.
"A 10? Really?" He turns his gaze back to her. "Dude I'll admit she's a looker, but I'd say more of an 8. Not 10 material, but eh different stokes for different folks."
I wasn't listening ... | We were in History and we were doing what we usually did, which is to say fucking around and joking and flirting all under the guise of diligent group study. I had my circle, my group of friends, with whom I shared almost everything apart from my ‘talent’. Tom sat to my right, his mouth sloped upwards in a lazy grin an... | 2014-11-29T15:22:56 | 2014-11-29T15:22:15 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] you’re an airline pilot. During one of your nighttime flights, you hear a message over your radio: “attention all flights! Stay in the air as long as you can! I repeat, stay in the air as long as you possibly can!” | **“Attention all flights! Stay in the air as long as you can! I repeat, stay in the air as long as you possibly can!”**
A flashing red light beamed from the tower outwards, skirting around as it tried desperately to catch the eye of any plane in the circuit.
*"Tower, Air North 346...uh...confirm that you want us to a... | The thrum of the sound system's bass passed through the cabin door and into the feet of Captain Weems who squinted at a grey cloud that passed on his right. The moon was a great silver spot light that shimmered through the sky, none of the clouds were impressive enough the veil the celestial object. From below was the ... | 2020-12-29T19:42:51 | 2020-12-29T19:42:44 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] This fairly innocuous-looking girl just beat up your entire martial arts dojo, by herself. When you asked why, she said one of your students was picking on her brother. | I watched my students bounce in with joy for sparring day. It was everyone’s favorite day at the dojo and excitement filled the air. It’s the time for them to showcase their skills and practice new techniques, all in the name of friendly competition. The boys were always eager, I often found it hard to get them to pay ... | Victor watched as the members of his dojo strived for further mastery. They each performed various katas according to their skill. He stopped by some students to correct their form.
He paused when he saw a figure at the door. A young woman was there. She was young, maybe in her late teens or early twenties. She wore p... | 2022-12-15T11:49:45 | 2022-12-15T11:41:04 | 240 | 38 |
[WP] A man makes a deal with the devil to make the world's greatest pizzas in exchange for his soul. After years of making pizza he decides it's no longer worth it, and concedes his soul to the devil. The devil, having become addicted to the man's recipe, finds himself in a bind. | People said the closing of La Luna was the greatest tragedy in culinary history. Several news outlets would report on the Michelin three-star restaurant for days thereafter. A group of supporters even held a candlelight vigil outside the empty building. But for Louis, closing that restaurant was a tremendous weight off... | Look, you just...
Okay. To start off with, this 'soul' business is a load of BS. If it existed like that, not only would it never make any sense to trade it, you'd never be *able* to. Since it's, y'know, *part* of you.
Yes, you can sell a kidney, but this is a lot more like selling your whole nervous system. Just... | 2022-09-02T21:35:59 | 2022-09-02T20:13:33 | 85 | 62 |
[WP] Demons roam the Earth. They can't be killed. They can't be stopped. But they can only hurt you if you look at them directly. Because of this, children must be blindfolded until they are old enough to understand the consequences. | I remember the day my blindfold first came off very well.
I was still young, maybe 6 or 7, and it was the first time I was allowed out of the house without my blindfold on. I kept looking around at all the people with downcast eyes. Nobody would look at one another, nor up at the beautiful blue sky. Nobody but me.
My... | Who was it, that said the eyes were the windows to the soul?
They teach it to children when they're young, cover their eyes with a cloth and drill it into their heads. *Never make eye contact.* It's a strange spectacle to see parents lead their sons and daughters, their own eyes averted towards the ground. The blind... | 2016-09-30T01:03:09 | 2016-09-29T22:02:57 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Impossible." Lamp exclaimed to his partner. Of course, Lamp isn't his real name, being the president of the High Council of Galactic Science, and a member of the Beblebrox species, his true name had acquired so many titles and honorifics over the years due to his accomplishments that Lamp had long since forgone using ... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T13:59:04 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | Quetzalcoatl was pissed. The rolls were not going his way of late.
"Perception. Sense Motive. Diplomacy."
One. One. Two.
"NO. COME ON!!!"
Across the table, God yawned.
Tenochtitlan's doors were thrown open, and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés stroked his beard and strolled into the heart of the Aztec Empire.
T... | Hands shaking. Sweaty forehead. At this exact moment in time, he knows that all of his hard work, all of his investments, are up in the air. There has never been a more at stake.
For a brief moment, he questions his methods. Surely he shouldn't leave such an important decision, with human possible human extinction, t... | 2018-06-28T11:34:25 | 2018-06-28T11:27:51 | 276 | 22 |
[WP] It's 2022. Deep fakes are common, and nobody can prove pictures aren't faked. For the first time since the 90's, you can do what you want in public without worrying about being photographed. | "Your honor, my client Kate, also known by her street name Kitty, would like to contest that the video footage of her robbing this bank is doctored via a means called Deep Fake, and that she is innocent of these charges! We would like to put forward a motion that the charges be dismissed on these grounds!"
The judge l... | Used to a bad pic sealed your fate. Was a thing many did hate. Everyone had proof on why you might be late. But More fake pics came at an alarming rate. This was good for a girl named Kate.
Kate knew her way through her city, so when it came to crime she was wuite witty. She even had a streetname, she was the Kitty.
... | 2018-02-07T16:53:35 | 2018-02-07T15:02:21 | 242 | 36 |
[WP] You’ll be turning 823 this year, and one of the androids you built on Earth is becoming conscious. They’ve always seen you as a parent. Now, they have a life and intend to rebel. Your oldest “daughter” is leaving your 800 year old villain organization behind for a sixteen year old boy: a hero.
Decided to finally ... |
(WP) Good vs. Evil at the Dinner Table
“Daddy, I need to talk to you. It’s important.”
The old man was jolted out of his research, and it took a few moments for his mind to clear of numbers, equations, and formulas.
His eldest daughter, an android that had become slowly more conscious over the years, stood in t... | "You *dare* defy me? I *created* you, fool, you have no will. Cease this immediately.” Kreshaw had turned red behind his thick black beard, standing on the broken steps outside his tower, a metal candle that caressed the clouds.
“I have what you gave me. Perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you think.” CX-001 s... | 2019-03-07T10:40:24 | 2019-03-07T08:43:09 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You find yourself in a time loop, where you have to prevent 7 different murders with 7 different murderers, one happening each day of the week. Every time you fail, you are returned to the beginning of the week. But there is just one problem: you are a dog.
(Optional detail: the murder victims are people that hav... | It takes time. Time and patience. I don't know if you're aware, but patience is not a quality generally found in dogs.
Try again.
Try, try again.
Try, try, try again.
Quitting is an option, of course. But it isn't, of course. Not really. They have to be saved. They *have* to.
What's a week, to a dog? Time is weird... | How long had it been before I discovered the truth? A month? A year? Time passed strangely in this new body. I had been cursed.
Cursed to live a short and unfulfilling life, abused and ignored.
I had expected to end up in a place where I would never see the sky again. Instead, I had ended up on the streets of my hom... | 2019-11-09T23:10:20 | 2019-11-09T21:16:10 | 1,095 | 160 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | "Honey, are you sure about this place?" Miriam looked askance at her husband.
"Of course. Look at the city. It's bustling and they need a good swift food establishment. We'll make good money and live a good life." Vance replied patting her arm soothingly.
"I know dear. It's just. Well this place...something about i... | From my granite balcony I surveyed the depths of my domain. The sky was a bloody orange, flecked with clouds and the rising smoke of burning buildings. People, the size of ants, were torching statues and government buildings, the legacy of my rule. I turned around.
‘Why did you have to do all of this?’, the Hero said... | 2017-06-12T07:29:18 | 2017-06-12T01:33:38 | 100 | 21 |
[WP] It has been a year since your spouse mysteriously died. You are fidgeting with your wedding ring when a compartment opens and a note falls out. It starts, "My Love. If you are reading this, I must be dead..." | I wake up on the anniversary tired, hurting, staring at the wall. Sunlight streams through the bedroom blinds. If I look long enough, I can outline the dust and faded spots above the dresser where her pictures used to hang. My jaw aches; I must have had anxiety dreams again.
Our son is up before me. I can hear him m... | The 49th Day
I knew when I married her that our life together would be one of long absences, her work in data recovery and analysis as a Contractor to various Corporate and Government groups meant she often left without telling me where or what she was doing, but always promised to return in 48 days. We had dated for ... | 2017-05-25T12:59:03 | 2017-05-25T10:06:10 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] Throughout the galaxy Humans are well known as being the most peaceful race--and have become well respected as diplomats and traders. But that's because up until now, no-one knew of the three World Wars we fought before first contact. | Our first spaceport was opened on the eve of 2200. This sparked a fever of colonization, as soon as scientists Identified a habitable planet, people lined themselves up to be boarded onto colonization ships. Even after we came to occupy 5% of the milky way, we hadn't met anybody. It took 75 years of spacefaring before ... | Crypto was a simple trader. He spent his days traveling between kryvion and earth, trading his planets spices (the spiciest in the known galaxy, the humans couldn't get enough of it) and returning with whatever earth trinkets he could find. Mostly these interesting contraptions with some mechanical design at the front ... | 2017-05-01T13:58:51 | 2017-05-01T13:40:31 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story that takes place in broad daylight in a crowded area. | I instantly left home when I got the sms and headed to my sisters place, my safe place.
Ever since that disgusting man violated me I could barely sleep, and only a week after being released from prison, a week of freedom in which he could come good on his promise he had somehow got my phone number.
He had waited thro... | The train station is packed. In front of me a few hundred men and women crowd the edge of a small platform. They are waiting for my train; the 6pm from London to Birmingham. There are far more people here than usual for this time of day and I know what it means - the previous train was cancelled. It also means that as ... | 2016-07-05T11:26:18 | 2016-07-05T10:40:02 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | He looked maddened. The genie’s form filled the cave and observed the human who had summoned him. He wore an elaborate set of robes, marking him as one who already had riches and power. The two most common wishes. And he looked mad. For the first time in centuries of summoning, the genie felt apprehensive.
“Found you... | "A genie?" The genie questioned in bemusement, his chest rising, strained countenance retreating and eyes rolling to the top right corner of his head as if to diagnose the obvious malfunction of his ears.
"A genie" the man said smugly. Satisfied with his own quick thinking.
"You.. WANT to be a genie?" The genie ques... | 2014-07-26T13:49:37 | 2014-07-26T13:43:42 | 273 | 56 |
[WP] It turns out your pet rock is actually a golem and a golems duty is to protect. | “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?” James screamed.
“He’s my pet rock, please don’t yell it’s very rude.” Sara said.
James peered at it confused “But what is it, some kind of robot or something?”
“No,” Sara replied “he’s a rock.”
“I get that it looks like a rock but how is it moving, is it some kind of machine-like wind up th... | "Dude," the head honcho of the group glanced in Abe's direction, "can you just go away?"
"Hey, guys... I just wanna come and show off my pet, just like you guys!" I said, much like a 70s salesman on TV.
The group looked at each other briefly before breaking into a laugh. It was bad enough that they laughed, the tone ... | 2020-05-20T09:27:09 | 2020-05-20T07:54:43 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] You’re several thousand years old, and a historian wants to pick your brain. Trouble is, you’ve always been somewhere else during every major historical event. But the history you -do- know is much weirder than what made it into the books... | *Yes, please have a seat.*
*So I wanted to ask you a few questions about some historical events.*
I shrug. Truth be told I’m not entirely comfortable telling Richard about history. But he’s Richard J. Evans, an extremely famous british historian. Might as well answer the questions and get it over with.(Also the monet... | **A sequel to [this](https://redd.it/7ruf3l). Please let me know what you think!**
The woman wore her hair in a tight bun, which did nothing to hide the grey strands among the brown. She seemed to wear no makeup, but the unnatural redness of the thin slash of her lips suggested that some lipstick had been involved. He... | 2018-05-12T03:59:54 | 2018-05-11T23:07:18 | 130 | 38 |
[wp] Caped Baldy?! Thanos almost spit out his spaghetti from poorly suppressed laughter. They are sending him to take the Gauntlet away from me? He burst out laughing now. They must have gone insane. How much of a threat someone named caped baldy can be? | “Attend me!” roared Thanos as he lifted his sinewy legs off the bed and settled them onto the ground with a thud. In rushed a steward dressed in the tradition uniform of a Black Order trainee, bringing Thanos’ favorite undergarments, tight leggings and gold crested sleeveless navy blue tunic. It was commonly known to... | Thanos paused his laughter as he heard the faint squirting of a spray bottle. "What the..." Thanos muttered. He swiftly ran into his living room, expecting to find an intruder; however, he instead found the room empty, seemingly undisturbed. What did he expect? After he wiped out half of the universe and retreated to T... | 2018-07-01T01:18:17 | 2018-06-30T21:25:06 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | I read the note carefully. It said “One of you is the A.I.” I turned to the other person in the room and said, “Hey, do you want to read this?”
He turned to me and said in a loud monotone stuttering voice, “YES.”
I gave it to him and he said, “NOTE ENCRYPTION: ONE OF YOU IS THE A.I.”
He then started to spark and jitt... | My eyes hurt. That dull dry pain when you’ve napped too hard and woken up at 5:45 pm, your day wasted.
“Oh no,” I groaned, “what the fuck is this?”
Light grey walls and a hard cold floor surrounded me. A single door opposite a large single plane of glass were the only hints this wasn’t some imaginary box. At least i... | 2018-02-22T15:58:40 | 2018-02-22T15:57:38 | 277 | 170 |
[WP] Everyone gets a superpower from the superpower lottery when they come of age. Usually, it's a very minor power - but you found a way to rig the game. Now you've come to regret it. | Once a year, our nation holds the Super Power Lottery. It's a simple affair. Each new candidate, any child who turned 16 since the last lottery, goes to a prepared deck of cards and draws. Based on the unique card drawn, a power is distributed. The card is then reshuffled into the deck, so that multiple people may draw... | It was awesome for about a month. Everytime someone's 18th birthday came along and they spun the wheel to claim their power they had no idea that I would also be getting it. Since most people get minor powers, including me, I went from always being tired to never needing to sleep, never being on time to always being ea... | 2017-12-15T09:49:56 | 2017-12-15T09:05:11 | 56 | 28 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | How did **I** win? I **killed** it on **the** stock market. **One** good, smart **person** with guts, **that** is all **I** was. Never, **ever** would I **really** think I **loved** it, but **I** did. I **am** entirely not **sorry**.
Now it's **time** to celebrate, **for** partying, for **me** to cheer, **to** live la... | Dear Elisa,
By God, I can't help but say, please, remember the help George gave me last year. I have a need to return the favour, the key to this is in you. It seems strange with our history, you understand, but please, I must send him thanks, it must be soon. In town they're building the coming festivals decorations,... | 2014-07-29T09:32:54 | 2014-07-29T09:24:03 | 365 | 13 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I have always imagined what the world would be like if everyone was a kid, running on a sugar rush with no worries or troubles to think about.
Now if the world was full of hormone-galore 18 year old kids, that would be a much more different scenario.
And that is exactly what had happened.
It started about two mon... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T09:55:51 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | My grandmother raised me.
I guess you could call her, ah, famous. She was a senator for a couple of decades, and so I guess some people in the state had heard of her. Really, I wasn't much interested. I hated politics; it gave me a headache. The only time I had to have anything to do with it was when I had to dress u... | In life, you can gain points, for every 7 points you gained a level, which was shown upon an afterlife scoreboard that was hard to miss. In life certain actions gives you points that will, in the afterlife, give you a level, how the system works seems somewhat random. But it seems to be based on merits you have gaine... | 2018-04-14T16:37:28 | 2018-04-14T14:57:18 | 1,856 | 382 |
[WP] "I'm sorry, this disease is incurable, you have 6 months to live. But hey, why don't you take a light speed cruise and give it 20, maybe 50 years? We should have a treatment by then. " | "What do you mean by light speed cruise?" I asked.
"Simply put, you get into this spacecraft, take a spin around this planet known as Omega 9. For your mind and body, it will only be like 5 months for the whole trip. But here, on earth, 50 years would have passed. Time dilation they call it." Dr. Tracy Spectus calml... | Doc Ed says that it's terminal--
says he gives me half a year.
Says that's thinking optimistically--
That I must take special care.
Though a thinker, I'm no careful man
So as I approach my death
I take my notes out, hatch a plan,
Spread charts all 'cross my desk.
See I work at Ogden Spacecraft--
fifty y... | 2021-12-27T07:19:59 | 2021-12-27T01:25:17 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... |
"Let's just get started already... You know what a Level 0 means. We have to dammit! We're out of options." snarled General Jones.
"Wait!" I shouted. "He's been gone for 3 years. How do we know it's actually him?!?"
"Once you've seen him, heard him, felt his presence, and that hair... You KNOW who it is... now just ... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T04:28:29 | 40 | 11 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 (OR 21 IN CERTAIN STATES) IT IS UNLAWFUL TO VIEW THIS VIDEO
Title: Master Cook Vol. 7
Performers: Cici Cilantro, Dana Dine, Mark Hamburger
Date: 1987
On a dark and steamy night, mild mannered sex-serviceman Paul (Mark Hamburger) gets a craving unlike any he's had before. Tempted ... | Everybody looks at me weird when I tell them I teach evolutionary history. They've heard of the second word from the history channel (if anybody even watches it anymore) but if anybody knows what the first word means it means I've found a kindred spirit. Someone else who studies the past in a way that I do.
My s... | 2013-11-18T13:33:50 | 2013-11-18T12:07:53 | 97 | 18 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | 'The All Seeing Eye' honestly I just thought it looked cool. I can't exactly 'think' much these days. I rarely get the chance.
I can see the Universe, it truly is beautiful, I see the chaos that created it and the peace that will, or already has, brought it back together.
It's hard to tell these days, these centuri... | “For the love of all that is holy, please Mom!” I shouted, but I knew it was all for naught. The pounding on the door increased. “I love you, but not in that way. You’ve got to stop, you’re hurting yourself!” But still she threw herself against the door. The old hinges began to buckle against the strength of someone wi... | 2019-05-07T09:09:10 | 2019-05-07T08:50:39 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | Surveying the field from atop my war steed, I saw victory within my grasp. My army stood on high ground, out of arrow's reach, assuming their formations for the charge. Below us the fertile farmlands of Non spread in an emerald slope down to the wide, slow river.
The nons were milling about in a sort of phalanx be... | Boulder sat on the edge of the creek, feet dangling lightly in the water as he stretched his toes, feeling the weight of the cool current in the afternoon sun. Behind him, taking the last of his armour off his legs, bridge moved to join the man on the creek bed. Sitting himself down, he continued the conversation that ... | 2021-02-10T03:04:09 | 2021-02-10T02:13:46 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] Your super power is preventing collateral damage. While the public thinks you're useless, all the other heroes really like you because they can go bonkers all out while you're around. | Taking it more towards "Established Universe"
××××××××××××
"Kevin finally showed up!" Superman heard in his earpiece. He grinned.
His fight with Darkseid was over one second later. Superman loved not having to hold himself back, especially in this world as fragile as cardboard to him.
"Good work," Batman could be h... | *the mental toll, I don’t think I can take it anymore. I got these powers just seemingly yesterday, despite the actual timing being months ago. I feel as this duality of gaslighting is bring me down. The public thinks I’m useless and the others think I’m a janitor…I don’t know. Walking along this sideway on a dark nigh... | 2022-12-17T12:12:46 | 2022-12-17T11:35:31 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] Today, you have become a parent. You realise that you can hear your child's thoughts. The midwife informs you that this is the same for everyone but parents simply don't inform the children as an unwritten rule. Your own parents smirk. | It had been gnawing on me for four years, since I first became a mother. My parents had known everything. Everything. I have never been truly free. I had known my thoughts as private. They never were. My parents were my own personal Gods, aware of everything.
The rule echoes in my head ever so often, free from anyone... | I looked up in shock at my father, who smirks back, with a grin to rival the Cheshire Cat.
"How could you not tell me?" I asked,
Mum giggled, "Oh honey, it was just too much fun. We were as shocked as you were when our parents told us."
A sudden realisation dawned.
"That's how you knew anytime I had eaten meat."
... | 2015-01-09T05:14:43 | 2015-01-09T04:54:59 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | “What’s it doing?”, aerg asked.
“Oh, that’s an instinctive reaction. It’s called crying, according to encyclopedia. It’s a form of frustrated submission. The display of wetness on its face is a call for mercy.” miurg fanned its sensor antennae to observe again the excretions of the prisoner.
“Why does it not just ... | “Look, all I’m saying is-“ “HOW can it be dangerous? It’s been crying in that corner for like 25 minutes!”
I looked over at the sobbing human. He did look rather sad, and I guess we should expect that. We did just steal him. “Why is he crying so much? It’s so IRRITATING!” Jaruta was getting really mad.
“Maybe he’s ... | 2018-02-17T21:27:28 | 2018-02-17T13:54:02 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | Life begats life. This is plainly known. Less known is the magical potential every life holds. Even if it's never realized, it's possible to tap into that magical pool.
I was in my 37th year in this realm, which though it may not look like it, was a long time ago, when I struck upon a wondrous deal. How could I not le... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archcommander Varney)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The National High Energy and Temperature Lab was abuzz.** Professor Hale bustled into the main containment... | 2021-04-15T11:13:01 | 2021-04-15T10:44:40 | 144 | 104 |
[WP] You are happily alone in your boat in the middle of the Pacific with no other soul within a 500 mile radius. One morning you wake up and there is another person standing on the deck of your boat, smiling at you. You look around and there are no other boats in sight. | I stared as the boat creaked and swayed with the swells. Salt water stung me eyes but I could not help meself but stare for there she were. The most beautiful lass I'd ever set me eye on, and I'd seen many beauties in me life! As a young man I hadn't questioned it but now... well now I wonder lads, how had she managed ... | I woke up as usual to the sun rising to a morning mist and the breeze blowing. I had taken my boat out at least a week ago. Finally alone on the open ocean. Food was probably running low. And I maybe could have drank less beer. But when you're by yourself you kinda just don't care.
As I step out onto the deck I'm met ... | 2021-02-02T10:05:01 | 2021-02-02T09:07:24 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] A few years after the world has recovered from the zombie apocalypse, everyone now is required to wear collars that will explode if a heart beat is not detected within 30 seconds. | **20 Seconds**
*20 seconds*. The allotted time we are given to save a life. 20 seconds of compressions, of mouth to mouth. Then, we step back. It's almost comical. Stare at a clock, 20 seconds seems like forever. Try and start a heart, it's passes in a single heartbeat.
After the infection, when the Collaborat... | It has been five years since "Infection 871". The zombie apocalypse that almost wiped out all of humanity, only leaving thousands alive. Most cities left in ruins. Many loved ones were lost. Rations of food and water have greatly decreased.
Despite all this, the economy has managed to rebuild itself. Farms were harves... | 2016-10-27T15:57:26 | 2016-10-27T15:14:17 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 24/f/pittsburgh
Had a crazy fun time 2 weeks w/ some guy I barely knew- he was really into biting. At first I was mad and I got kinda sick but now I'M FEELING really bitey- like I just wanna tear up some flesh?
Hit me up if you wanna try it out- I'll be at the monroeville mall at 2am, back parking lot - lets get a mo... | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | 2015-04-29T10:05:24 | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 57 | 27 |
[WP] You are an Olympic gold medalist in boxing. You’ve brought home gold for three different Olympics. One day, you wake up in an elevator. You are raised into a fighting ring, creatures you don’t recognize in the stands. A voice comes on overhead. “I bring you... earth’s finest warrior!” | **“I bring you... earth’s finest warrior!”**
I don't remember taking any drugs recently or drinking much - why am I in an elevator?
The door opens rather unusually - downwards. Red lights shine on me from the ceiling. In front of me is a hexagonal.. ring? I realize what has been said and stammer out: "Hey now, I'm ... | [POEM]
As they took me out to space
And put me in the ring
They said to me "Just break the face
of that big slimy thing.
For you are Earth's finest man,
we know you are The One.
Your punches are the highest, man!
So come and get this done.
Go battle for your glory,
And make your planet shine.
Extend you... | 2020-09-08T08:26:58 | 2020-09-08T07:32:02 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | **SLAM**
The men looked onward as the towering figure slammed his hammer into the nails like clockwork.
**SLAM**
It was a battle, was what it was. He was hellbent on driving these nails in faster than the engine, or at least that's what he promised his fellow railroad workers.
**SLAM**
Alas, the machine was catchi... | The midday sun burned down upon his thick neck. '*Not as hot as Hades' layer,* he thought wearily, '*but close.*' With one single, spectacular *CHOP*, the hulking man smashed his standard-issue axe against the unyielding tree beside him. Unsurprisingly, the tree gave way, slicing cleanly in half as if the man had used ... | 2018-05-27T19:43:43 | 2018-05-27T18:34:44 | 164 | 66 |
[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." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 23,079 | 43 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Look, Matty the Mad is acting strange again," I said, elbowing my friend Flint as we walked past her shack on our way home. The elderly woman was busy shoveling dirt over a hole, either unaware or unconcerned about her dirt-stained frock.
"I say, what're you up to, Matty?" he called.
She straightened and glared at u... | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | 2017-09-14T11:40:58 | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 3,641 | 114 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | We knew the orbital body, third from the stellar system core, was covered in great part by highly concentrated hydric acid solvent, and the atmosphere contained a remarkably high concentration of oxidizer in an highly toxic chemical soup of inert gases accompanied by solvent vapor and a surprisingly large percentage of... | I looked at the bi-pedal hominids. They were surprisingly similar to humans, only they were exact copies of each other. They had no hair, but their facial features were about the same as ours. I then looked down at Dave and Karen, their bodies lying on the ground in awkward poses, like dolls strewn about by an angry c... | 2014-11-09T16:22:23 | 2014-11-09T15:19:52 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 67 | 20 |
[WP] You meet with the person who is scientifically proven to be your ideal match. Only you don't really like him/her, and you sense the feeling is mutual. The is until...
Surprise me with the thing that makes the protagonist(s) fall in love.
EDIT: Thanks for all the great replies guys. Seeing the divirsity and creat... | I was honestly disappointed. While sitting across from her, a phrase kept repeating itself in my head: "Be careful with what you wish for, you might just get it."
It wasn't her plain visage and drab attire that bothered me. Neither was it her small face, freckled with a jawline that protruded outwards making her look ... | “But it can’t be wrong.”
“Of course it can” he let out an exasperated gasp and mumbled, “For fucks sake.”
“But its…you know…science.”
“Its science, not magic. Science isn’t perfect. That’s how it works. You know- trial and error.”
“Well when is the last time you heard of it not matching someone perfectly?” s... | 2014-08-14T07:54:27 | 2014-08-14T07:16:29 | 479 | 30 |
[WP] You have been prank calling a foreign number for years because of the hilariously angry reactions of the victim at the number. Today men in black suits brought you in for questioning, wanting to know why you have been calling the number of a major terrorist leader so frequently. | "First of all," I said. "Have you heard his voice? Dude's fucking hilarious. Nasal, check. High pitched, check. Funny accent, check. Added bonus, he squeaks before he shouts. The guy fucking squeaks when he gets angry! Who *wouldn't* prank call him?"
One of the agents slammed his hands down on the metal table. It echo... | "Wait..What?!" I yelled to the men, both with a blank expression on their faces
"We see you called the number 240-555-8692, so frequently that it is threatening to why you are calling that much." One of the two quickly snapped back
"Uh..why does it matter?" I said in a concerned voice
The two men looked at each othe... | 2015-11-03T15:01:37 | 2015-11-03T14:32:45 | 97 | 21 |
[WP] Your phone suddenly receives an emergency alert that tells you to seek shelter immediately. Your pet slowly walks up to you, looks you dead in the eye, and says: “The time has come. Follow me.” | As my phone buzzed with emergency alerts, I started panicking. What was wrong? What was happening? There was no way that I was going to die this young, that's for sure. Out of the corner of my eye, I see my cat, Annie, slowly striding towards me.
"Annie, what are we going to do?" I said, my voice heavy with worry. "I ... | **Caninenus Revolutionus**
My phone wouldn’t stop its incessant buzzing. I was tired of Amber Alerts always ringing away unwanted. But they usually stopped after 10 min of ignoring it. THis one however hadn’t stopped in an hour. And I refused to look at it. Instead I occupied my time with cooking a delicious meal I h... | 2018-02-07T16:03:01 | 2018-02-07T12:01:52 | 123 | 90 |
[WP] In a world where elemental magic affinity manifests on your 18th birthday, you and your family have always assumed yours would be water since you love waterfalls, lakes, rivers, etc. But when your time came, nothing manifested. And people are starting to get worried. | When I was 8 years old my parents took me to see Niagra Falls. It was magnificent; truly breathtaking. The flow of the water changed so drastically, but was always the same at that point in the falls. That's when my mild interest bloomed into a healthy obsession.
In middle school I started researching not just the bo... | Finding out an affinity is the most important day in a person's life, right after being born of course, and maybe marriage, and the birth of a kid, and perhaps death, or the death of your own parents. But it's right up there in the top ten or so. Fire was, for the longest time, the coolest, but a bunch of X-Men movies ... | 2019-09-16T11:00:21 | 2019-09-16T10:58:22 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] Death is surprised when you lose in the game for your life, it says "This is the first time in over two thousand years that my opponent did not cheat." | "Check" The figure that kept shifting between a swirling mass of darkness, Mr. Rogers, the Grim Reaper, and me said disinterestedly.
I moved my Bishop and took his queen. He held on Mr. Rogers for a few minutes longer than he did usually. "Checkmate." He said as he held his mouth open.
"Okay, what now?"
"I don't ... | There had been a weird moment, where Karly almost wanted to cheat. She had lived a life of stolen moments. She often felt her life was not her own, working against the person she should have been.
Karly didn't know what to think of Death when he approached her. Karly had been standing on the curb, waiting for the lig... | 2017-07-16T19:51:20 | 2017-07-16T14:05:31 | 22 | 13 |
[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 ... | 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... | The top comment is blank. I scroll down, but it only takes about a half-turn of my mousewheel to get to the bottom of the page. Every one of the top 200 comments is a blank post. It's only then I can let myself recognize the fact, that all these posts, have the same four-letter username. Actually, they all have the exa... | 2016-01-31T10:29:29 | 2016-01-31T10:28:16 | 24 | 10 |
Daily Prompt: The Alphabet Game [Difficulty level: HARD]
One of the exercises we used to do in improv class was called "The Alphabet Game." That's where you start a sentence beginning with the letter A. Then the next sentence begins with the letter B. So, today's prompt requires you to, essentially, do the alphabet - ... | Arriving late to the game, I'm in a position to critique my competition. Bad grammar infects every entry in this thread, and a decent plot is nowhere to be found. Could a progressive-alphabet format really be so difficult to pull off that clarity and wit would necessarily take a back seat to syntax?
Don't worry abou... | All throughout my childhood have been memories of fruit. Beautiful, delectable, and tasty fruit. Children on my block used to gather around and play with fruit, except one child never came outside, and only watched the children play. Daniel Honeydew. Everyone knew of him, because he was a household name, but nobody... | 2012-08-08T20:20:38 | 2012-08-08T10:49:35 | 72 | 10 |
[WP] Create a character who is a paragon of virtue, kind and good and all round awesome. Make me hate this character. | Tall. Dark. Handsome. Polite. Talented. Not to mention a brilliant disposition and a stunning countenance.
The sort of man that women dream about, the one that drives envy into the roots of men.
What does he do? Everything. How does he do it? Well, *incredibly* well.
He'll donate a small fortune (small to him, large... | She was always so happy, blissful, kind.
Even when I wasn't.
We sharply disagreed on many things, but she never held my beliefs against me.
I never saw her being negative or rude. Hell, I never even saw her frown until she started talking about GMOs and animal abuse. She donated, volunteered, and gave me no reaso... | 2014-06-27T09:33:10 | 2014-06-27T08:52:58 | 19 | 13 |
[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. | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 20 | 12 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Private First Class Andrew Cass stumbled over the rocky ridge as alien blaster fire thundered above. They were being pushed back, there was no denying it. Along what amounted to their front lines, the alien spearhead had already broken through in numerous places. The squads of exhausted marines that held the line were ... | The afflicted weren't as numerous as they where before. Zombies had a hard time
dying but their lifespan wasn't infinite. For the most part they ignored the
living and preferred cooler, darker places. And apart from a few separatists
the living where content leaving the dead be. After all they where a reminder
of the v... | 2019-08-28T14:15:05 | 2019-08-28T11:09:28 | 68 | 44 |
[WP] You are trying to describe your favorite food to an alien who is studying human life. You are the first person they've asked, so they have no prior knowledge on the subject. | Two humanoids sit at a bar to order beverages compatible with their digestive systems.
The human sits and ponders. He misses flowers and the scent of real air, not this artificial horseshit pumping through his mask. It always smells like he's sitting in a fucking doctor's office or some shit.
He ordered a whiskey n... | "So, what is this barbeque chicken?"
"Well you take the chicken,"
"The small domesticated fowl?"
"Yes, but this one's been killed and cleaned so we can cook it."
"Ah, I see. You humans put so much more effort into your food than we do."
"Anyways, you cover the chicken in the BBQ sauce and cook it in the sauce."
"... | 2017-10-25T19:55:39 | 2017-10-25T19:46:46 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Ka-el-ri sat next to me at lunch. "Listen, I know you said not to worry, but... Your hair says otherwise." She touched the plated braid over shoulder. It was a vibrant vermillion but the black roots were showing.
"Honestly its fine." I reaponded brushing her hand away.
"I dont know..." she touched her own hair, a dee... | Note: I do not know how long it takes for hair dye to fade.
One year about I was taken from Earth, and I've been in this spaceship ever since. They wanted a human to "study", although I didn't find that out until 4 months ago, when they finally decided to teach me their language. Sadly, when I asked them in their own ... | 2020-07-05T13:23:48 | 2020-07-05T13:16:56 | 202 | 94 |
[WP] You and your sibling are both indestructible, and have been since birth. Since neither of you could be mortally injured, your childhood pranks tended to get out of hand. | Pain's a bitch. Not physical pain, I don't know anything about that. Never felt it. Not a single hangnail, bruise, cut, or burn. Nothing. But that doesn't mean I don't know pain. I know pain more than most. My twin sister and I are experts at pain, I'd say. Inflicting and enduring. See, we're immortal, and being immort... | "It's my turn," Arthur said reaching for the controller.
"No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!" Arthur punched Charlie in the arm.
Their mother Tina peeked around the corner of the kitchen and sighed and closed the heavy steel kitchen door. It was a little early in the day for a drink but she said screw it and poured a gla... | 2016-07-04T08:43:18 | 2016-07-04T08:36:48 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] A new drug is released that allows humans to experience a full night's sleep in around forty-five minutes, and it can be used indefinitely. The entire pattern of human culture shifts overnight. It's been several years, and the unintended consequences are becoming evident. | Hey man, what are you really into?
Well, I enjoy botany and computer science and hiking and philosophy and knitting and meditation and astronomy and and and...
But I never get to do any of those things.
No. Drug testing was used in the past to exclude potential employees who occasionally smoked weed or had a proble... | From Someone’s Journal:
Okay, I don’t have a lot of time to write this (too much school work), but I need to get it out. It’ll be a bit of a mess, so I apologize to anyone reading.
To be honest, I don't think it was anyone’s fault. As much as I wanted someone to blame - well, we all did - the “system” never meant to... | 2018-01-31T21:24:49 | 2018-01-31T19:40:42 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] A group of wealthy old men get tired of golf and hire you to DM a game of Dungeons and Dragons for them. | By the time I was born, my great-grandfather was already very old, rich, and mysterious. The tall-tale is that he made his money as a treasure-hunter, but whenever I’ve asked him about it, he changes the subject and talks about golf. “If I’d only hit a four-iron on hole two yesterday, I’d have been ten yards closer to ... | You could tell life for Harold hadn't been the same since the accident. Ever since his company was bought out and his shares sold, he'd been spending all of his time at the County Country Club - at least after his daily triple-bacon-and-egg croissant. Pretty par for the course, so to speak, as with most ex-billionaires... | 2018-02-11T17:01:22 | 2018-02-11T16:10:59 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] You are a necromancer, but actually really bad at it. The only thing you have ever brought back to life is plants. So now you tell everyone that you are just a very gifted gardener, to cover up your failure. | "And first place for the home gardening contest is Mr. Drahar!"
Sarah glared coldly at her second place trophy, watching the pale man in front of her awkwardly walk forward and claim the first place trophy. He shrunk down as the photographer took a photo of him in front of his dazzling front lawn, his victory earning... | It was five years ago, during a dark time in my life, that I began to pursue the dark arts. I found the mysteriousness tantalizing, the corruption enticing. Hands shaking in anticipation, I found my way to the secretive shelter of the sorcerer who had put out an ad in the classifieds. I opened the door to the small sha... | 2019-01-26T11:17:03 | 2019-01-26T10:14:46 | 491 | 119 |
[WP] You are a librarian at the world’s greatest library of magic and eldritch lore. Your job is to go out and collect overdue library books from customers. Today, as is often the case, the customer is being…problematic. | "Davey Delby!" I shouted through the oak door I was attempting to knock into submission. "I know you're in there! I won't even ask for the overdue fees, we just need the book back!" I took a moment and massaged my aching knuckles, growling under my breath. "Every time..."
The door flew open, and I was greeted by a har... | "Sir, you need more than a Horror blocking your door to make me go away!" My voice was firm as I saw the horror simply looming around the door of the small home.
Honestly, people can be hard, I know no one likes to pay the fine on overdue books, but come on! That's no excuse to act like a spoiled child and block the d... | 2017-08-29T11:49:00 | 2017-08-29T11:24:03 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] All natural disasters are actually the results of wizard duels. The wizarding world is horrified to learn of modern predictive technologies for said natural disasters. | "This is proof of a deterministic future ij accordance with Seidr's Third Law!" shouted Magister Maximillian Montrose, dropping the papers on the table.
"It is not!" responded the gnome Pallabar Pumpernink, "These are just projections. We are masters of the weave, not the other way around!" He red face as red as his n... | “No… it’s impossible…”
The young pupil looked up at the wizened mage, “what is it, archmage?”
The archmage sighed, “it doesn’t seem right, yet my readings indicate that there’s a spot where a total of five disasters are happening at once, two is impressive, three is very rare, and four has only been created in a lab ... | 2022-06-12T14:59:33 | 2022-06-12T14:58:08 | 101 | 22 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | "Oh god, please nothing with horses, I knew I would regret that night with Fred."
That fear sitting at the back of my mind, I drag my feet towards the terminal and begin punching in my user ID.
"Ah, shit, what was it..."
"6-1-3...." The thought trails off trying to remember the number I've only used once or twice... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T10:22:43 | 1,055 | 165 |
[WP][TT] You wake up, make yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the morning sun rising from the sea. Then you remember that your house isn't supposed to be anywhere near a sea...
Edit: Thank you all for your amazing stories! | George woke up with a pounding headache. His memory of the previous night was fuzzy, but the bodies in various stages of sleep, strewn about around him confirmed his suspicions: last night was quite the party.
Ever so slowly, George dragged himself up from his bed (the floor) and over to the kitchen. His hands excited... | The long, yellow fingers of the sun slowly crept in through the window causing me to push my eyes shut tighter and will them away. When that failed to work, I slowly sat up and stared at my feet pressed hard onto the cold, metal floor. Rubbing my eyes I stood and stretched, feeling my back pop back into place.
Yawning... | 2015-05-28T08:47:22 | 2015-05-28T08:40:50 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Dani,
After everything that happened I continue to see you everywhere I go. Whether it's bringing up the past or driving through town and seeing a car just like yours or in my dreams sometimes I can't escape you. And I always think about what exactly it is I will do when I see you again. I want to scream at you o... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T19:53:10 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 95 | 55 |
[WP] You have a power to gift people special abilities, but you cannot gift them to yourself. You are a assaulted by gang of bullies who threaten you to give them powers, but little do they know you can add a side effect as well. | I never wonder how people stranded in a desert feel when they see an oasis just out of reach. That’s because I experience that everyday. Not literally, of course. But I live in a world where people have supernatural gifts, and I have within me nearly every kind of gift. The only caveat is that I can’t use any of them m... | “Fine, fine! I just need a second!” I shoved the nearest oaf back a few inches and righted myself, pushing my hair back into place as I tried to buy myself some time. “It takes concentration.” I took a few cautious steps back from the group to make an assessment of the situation. There were four of them, and they each ... | 2021-04-01T06:14:11 | 2021-04-01T03:33:36 | 133 | 74 |
[WP] An ancient manuscript is unearthed. It is proven to be the original Book of Revelation. After it is translated, there are actually FIVE Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Describe the Fifth Horseman, his color, and his contribution to the Apocalypse.
(Title) | There are whispers that there is one Horseman more powerful than his four brothers combined. Never in the countless wars between Heaven and Earth had he been summoned to battle, but he had always watched and waited with an infinite patience that gods and demons could only envy.
Now, at the very end of all things, he h... | When He broke the fifth seal, I heard the fifth living creature saying, “Come.” And as last, a brown horse, went out; the man who sat on him was chubby and round of face, an ugly sneer painted on it. A golden crown, a golden chain and a golden cloak, and hungry eyes peeking out over the horizon. "My daughters for a man... | 2015-09-22T12:12:30 | 2015-09-22T11:42:52 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Skills level up in real life through use, much like in RPGs. One day, you keep getting notifications that one of your skills is leveling, over and over, even though you're not doing anything. | A slight vibration in my ear alerts me to what I already know, I am taking a dump. Still I gaze up and to the right to see my augmenter display, “defecation has received +1 XP.”
I shuffle my way past the sink and into the hallway, another vibration, “sanitation -2 XP.” I sigh, “fucking nanny state.”
I was told that ... | ... and at this hour we'll be shifting our news coverage on the Award Ceremony for Skilled Experts. Tim, how is that going over there?"
"Oh boy Jim! The crowd here is so pumped, you can just feel the sheer enthusiasm from them as they scream with that passionate energy. In fact, the response seems so big that they're ... | 2018-04-26T15:53:56 | 2018-04-26T14:39:23 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | By rights I shouldn't exist. With the pairing of bear and dove, they expected something smaller. A wolf, perhaps, or an eagle. Something fast, yet powerful. Strong, yet humble. No one prepared for me.
The marks determine one's place in society. My father, with his unequaled strength, led the tribe to greatness. My mot... | Our first video chat was great. We both met over the internet and after some short texting we decided to have a video chat. In that chat we found out that we don't really like our spirit animal. She wanted to know why I hate mine and I was willing to give her my answer:
"I really hate my spirit animal. Everyone of my ... | 2017-11-08T05:54:13 | 2017-11-08T05:45:33 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "I have to think rationally about this", Barack thought to himself. He closed his and began to think.
I'm on the third story. There are 2 secret service agents on each floor. Could someone have sneaked past them? No, they would have undoubtedly stepped on Joe's train sets and alerted the agents. That meant that the ag... | I look at the letter and like the millions of other letters that come across my desk, I disregard it. Minutes later, my phone rings from an unknown number.
"Hello"?
"Why did you toss the letter away?"-JFK
I look around for cameras.
"Biden"?
"It's Kennedy. Just as the letter stated!"-JFK
"Goodbye'
"WAIT"-JFK
"W... | 2017-05-14T10:01:37 | 2017-05-14T08:39:09 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] "Do you sell time?" | The open sign on the door rattled when it swung. It was early, the sun still peeking over the fresh wind of the new day; the cars grumbling to life as loudly as the owners that sat lazy inside them. The 2004 Subaru Outback parked out front was a welcome change to Gary. The midsummer vacation mom and her six year old da... | Crooked teeth form a half smile on a scarred face, the merchant looking up at the little girl. She’s just shy of looking frightened. Bright blue eyes take in his scarred appearance.
“Time iz a very precious commodoty.” He spreads his hands to show all the items on his blanket, voice a slow roll. “What you be lookin’ ... | 2016-04-18T22:14:36 | 2016-04-18T19:48:07 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] In a world where having multiple personalities is the norm, the protagonist has been diagnosed with Single Personality Disorder. | On the first day at the Many Minds Clinic they handed me a piece of paper and asked me to write down the names I would assign my new personalities. I was to give names to each individual aspect of my personality and they would eventually develop into new people as I "bloomed" from one into many. I was given a room with... | School was difficult for me, I always had a special needs teacher in the afternoon and she kept me away from the other children. Walking home after school was rough, they would always poke fun at me because I was "different".
The doctor gave me a tablet to take every morning and evening, but the next month I saw anot... | 2015-06-07T21:30:06 | 2015-06-07T20:01:20 | 37 | 26 |
[WP] A medieval world where we know how to make modern weaponry, but each piece is so expensive it is considered impractical. You are a knight laying siege to a fortress when all of a sudden you see tanks on the horizon... | My horse whinnied and stopped. The archers put down their bows. Even the enemy knights, mid sword swing, froze. We all looked toward the metallic creaking of wheels, the snapping branches, and the crescendoing hum of an engine. A tank appeared over the horizon, its armor too thick for any of our weaponry to battle.
“W... | "Wake up! Today is the big day." Captain Frolik said.
Frolik was the closest person I had to family in this empire. Not very strong but he was a great shot with a gun. Of course, barely anyone on earth had more than a couple of guns in their military because of the price of them. In some cases, they costed more than bu... | 2017-11-02T15:40:51 | 2017-11-02T15:16:35 | 178 | 11 |
[WP] When a person turns 18. they get to pick a statistic. For the rest of their life, they will know this statistic about anyone they meet (lies told, days left alive, etc.) | For an investigator, the choice seemed only natural: number of deaths caused. While the scientific community was baffled by the one statistic phenomenon, it at least knew that the statistics were accurate. Of course, this was perfect for George; his testimonies proved invaluable in court.
But then, why was he drinkin... | Jasper knew he loved her. He'd told her so many times - 14, to be exact. Yet still his palms were sweaty and his cuticles picked raw. A shaving cut glistened on his cheek as he gazed at his craggy features and gray flecked hair in the mirror. He looked every one of his 31 years and a few extra.
Jessica was already wai... | 2014-08-11T08:26:50 | 2014-08-11T02:18:32 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] "What do you mean you're only PART ghost? Was one of your parents human and the other-" "No, that's not what happened. You see, something scared me HALF to death." "You've GOT to be kidding me." | "How can I see your ghost self? What do others see?"
"I don't know, I was wandering all over the city to see if people can see me. That's when I saw you, you stood there like you had just seen a ghost."
"It was insane this is all insane I mean you're human but you're hovering above the surface with some sort of white... | With ink still wet, the author set down his quill, completing the last recipe of Liber de Coquina. In this moment, the air of a crisp Naples evening hung heavy, for the grinding gears of fate changed direction.
Sitting in his 13th century villa, he had no knowledge of the events he had set in motion. With the recipe n... | 2021-04-28T10:33:40 | 2021-04-28T09:27:47 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | To the east sits a sits a man too powerful for any nation to publicly oppose. To the west stands a nation that has decided to police the entire world. In our own lands those in power are willingly handing the reigns of our sovereign soil over to people in far off lands no matter how hard the common man struggles agains... | The Great Wars - "Wars to end all wars." - That's what they called them. Yet I was born into a world ravaged by a hundred years of seemingly unending political, economic, and idealogical strife. These battles - elevated through time and technological breakthrough to a global stage unlike any other - appear so far awa... | 2015-12-19T07:56:35 | 2015-12-19T07:37:46 | 400 | 59 |
[WP] Upon ascending to the throne a young prince learns the highest state secret in the kingdom is that the treasury, and the very economy itself, has been managed for hundreds of years by a 4lb dragon too runty and crippled to amass or protect its own fortune.
For the most part dragons are engines of terror and death... | "You what?"
"Money. I want to see where it's made. I want to see how my kingdom controls it."
The King slapped his hands down on the smooth mahogany table.
"Gentlemen, as the ruler of this nation it is only sensible that I take an interest in the economy. Especially one as exceptional as ours."
The King produced... | The morning after the coronation, King Jesper woke up, stretched, and began his morning ablutions. Being King Jesper instead of Prince Jesper was still a strange feeling, one that despite years of grooming for the position was just as shocking as if it had come upon him by accident.
"Your Grace," came a voice, one of... | 2015-06-23T07:06:24 | 2015-06-23T06:12:03 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] As it turns out, those red lines in our eyes aren't veins, but rather a parasitic worm that feeds on ocular information. A Scientist removes them, and for the first time in history humans can see everything they were meant to | It was a delicate procedure. Snip. Required a precision that no-one else was even close to capable of. Push the needle through. No-one but me would try it. The man's mask fogged up as his breath condensed against the plastic. Hmm. This was slow work. He might wake up before we want him to. Nobody understands just how b... | "I said, Put it. Back. In."
"You do realize what that sounds like, right?" The Scientist quietly giggled, his sense of humor getting in the way of the serious nature of the situation.
"YES!! Haha, very funny, now **Put it back in.**"
"But why?!" The Scientist had spent his life on this conspiracy, working to uncover... | 2016-01-08T07:41:42 | 2016-01-07T19:40:31 | 106 | 29 |
[WP] This is the prologue (or the first chapter) of the novel you've always wanted to write.
EDIT: Holy crap, you guys are insane. Thank you everybody for your submissions, sorry if I don't thank you personally :)
EDIT 2: What the actual hell. Waking up to find your inbox at fifty - *and counting* - is not healthy. Y... | I was fourteen the day I realized I wasn’t a main character.
It was the weather, you see. In the stories you could always count on the sky to get a good read on the situation. Thunder heavy in moments of dramatic crisis, shifts to rain for the emotionally sundering, and sunny and cloudless on days of jubilant celebra... | It was the lunch rush and the PBJ Cafe was alive with voices. Each table's conversation fed into a swelling sound, joining the hiss of the espresso machine and the tinkle of plates and cups to create an effect that made Patrick think of running water. The stream of noise carried him in nearly constant motion as he wo... | 2015-09-12T13:44:03 | 2015-09-12T11:12:45 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] France is now illegal | No one thought that it would actually happen, politicians make stupid laws so people will protest them so they can get worse laws to pass without anyone caring. We all assumed this was the case, no one cared. We all figured someone else would cause an out-roar about it, but no did, no one cared. It was April 1st when i... | Damn baguettes.
I hate baguettes. They are so despicable.
Look at them, those baked goods make me so mad. I feel an anger boiling up inside me, welling up until I am fit to burst, fit to explode. The last time I was in a French bakery I got so angry that I shattered the window by kicking it with my full force, and un... | 2018-07-27T11:25:34 | 2018-07-27T08:37:34 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] Write a pirate story for my three year old son. With a witch in it somewhere. He says there has to be a witch in it.
My son is going through a pirate phase. Every night he asks for a pirate and witch story. I'm running out of variations on the theme. | "Arr" said Blackbeard
"Arr" said Long Johns silver, wearing a pair of long johns that were sort of a purple colour.
"Arr" said Private Pirate Name
"I'm sorry is it… rrrrrrrrrr" said Bob, because he was new.
"No Bob, it be Arrrrr" said Blackbeard
"Rrrrrrrr" said Bob
Blackbeard sighed "We'll work on it Bob"
"Land ... | And so once again Cap'n Crunch was sailing across the Ocean of Soy, looking for more fruit loops to plunder. There were unfortunately no fruit loops to see but Cap'n Crunch saw something even more valuable. A rare Coco Pop, it was believed the Coco Pops were long since gone from the Ocean of Soy, scooped up by the almi... | 2015-11-22T06:00:51 | 2015-11-22T05:38:29 | 117 | 26 |
[WP] You are every Super Hero’s worst enemy, not because you are particularly powerful, but because nothing you do is technically illegal… you’re just a huge asshole. | [Poem]
In Villainous stride,
Push heroes aside,
But still abide by the laws
No big dreamer, no villainous schemer not even a righteous cause.
I walk a thin line
Between rules, so fine
Make annoyances mine
Aftertaste like brine
Every loophole abused
Every get away used
Every shin bruised, because I... | “Look your robbed from the poor and gave to the rich” he said as his stupid H glowed on his chest. Hope man was the galaxies most powerful hero and that was saying a lot. Me well I’m just a guy. “ no no no I bought that Martian egg fair and square ok. It’s in a museum so thank you tax write off” his face twisted in an ... | 2021-08-02T04:24:48 | 2021-08-02T01:55:44 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Everyone stood around. My mom was the most excited while my dad just hung around in the background talking to my Uncle Paul. Several friends from high school were hanging back all waiting for my word to appear.
My mom had "Caregiver" on her wrist and was both a nurse and a mother like no other. My dad had "Build... | The words flashed red, the letters engraving themselves into my skin. I read them again, still uncomprehending. What kind of purpose was *that?*
I tried to get up, to run away, to try make sense of things - but my father held me firmly down by the shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.
"Son, your mother and I are very... | 2017-03-15T17:54:01 | 2017-03-15T17:51:32 | 1,085 | 256 |
[WP] Is the year 2090 and everyone carries an ear device that instantly translates any language. You married an amazing foreign woman & decide to learn her mother tongue as an act of love, then discover you didn't fall in love with her personality, but with the ear device get-along editing feature. | Sheila smiled at Dan from across the kitchen. She diced the carrots with machine-like precision, barely slowing to glance at her husband. Dan creased his eyebrows in her direction, expressing his exhaustion.
The Xorne's language had never been learned by another species in the galaxy. When Dan took out his ear, Sheila... | There once were two people.
One named 顏毅(yan yi), from Taiwan and one named Бралька (Braylka), from Ukrane.
They met in Taiwan, Бралька was on vacation in Taiwan, and met 顏毅.
They met at a religious ceremony, they both were very religious, and shared the same goals in life.
They knew their own respective parents would... | 2017-03-14T10:34:50 | 2017-03-14T10:32:10 | 87 | 27 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | It all happened 40 years ago.
Deep into my early 60s my memory fades day by day. But, I'll never forget that moment 40 years ago.
That moment was when life turned to death, the sweet scents turned to carrion stenches, the hallucinated utopia turned to a burning reality and when my innocence turned to corruption.
The... | *From that day on, I knew what I was doing was a lie. A complete lie.*
"Not coming to dinner tonight, Jay?" Mata said as he put on his shoes, "Heard we are eating ribs tonight." Sickness coiled inside my stomach.
"I'll pass, a bit tired," I said, hiding myself under the blanket, attempting to find some sort of comfor... | 2017-06-20T03:39:12 | 2017-06-20T03:35:51 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Man, what the fuck. This could seriously kill me."
"Nawdawg . . ." My eyes were closed. My head tilted forward, chin resting on my chest.
"No, really. Like I can smell that this is poison."
"NOOO!" Dogs are so STUPID. "It'sss fucking SKY man."
"I don't give a shit what it is, I'm not drinking it."
I continued po... | I dunno how much of that fucking Stoli I had last night. It's all a weird blur. For some reason, the clearest memory I have is dumping a lot of the water out of my goldfish Spike's bowl and replacing it with the vodka. To "give the little guy a buzz" or something, I dunno why I did it. I remember after I did that, Spik... | 2016-08-02T20:54:01 | 2016-08-02T20:31:04 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] A nerdy kid discovers that magic spells work exactly like a computer programming language.
There are some amazing stories here. Thank you all for responding. Also thanks to u/pandizlle who informed me that there is a book dealing with this very concept. It's called "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook. | **Bug ID #5608**
**Name:** Teleporting object arrives at speed
**Severity:** High
**Product:** Teleport
**Reported by:** AP
**Assigned to:** TJ
**Status:** Closed
**Description:** When teleporting over medium to long distances, I arrive with a significant lateral or vertical speed. In some cases, the spee... | "Jinkies!" I cried aloud, though it was just me in the room. "That's it!"
The glow of the supernatural program cast a dim light across the dark and dingy office in the old house. I was ready to ship, finally. My app would be out in the wild shortly having the unique title of "Universal Magic Compiler".
You see I'd fi... | 2014-08-04T05:45:00 | 2014-08-04T04:59:12 | 133 | 12 |
[WP] In the afterlife, you start at the age you are when you died, and age backwards. When you reach 0, you are reincarnated.
Edit: turns out this premise is already a novel, "Elsewhere" by Gabrielle Zevon. Many people below are recommending it, so it must be a good read :D
I'll leave the prompt up however, because I ... | Did you ever used to lay awake at night tossing and turning in your sheets, wondering what might have happened in your life? If only you'd gone and talked to that boy that you liked so much in high school, how would everything have turned out after that? What if you had become a writer as you always wanted, instead of ... | Heaven blinded me. Or so I thought at first. I spent time - days, months, it was hard to tell - drifting through the light. Eventually a shape began to form, darkness against the light, and I knew I could see. It looked vaguely human. After some time, its features became sharper.
*It looks like a little kid*, I thoug... | 2015-09-09T08:29:36 | 2015-09-09T08:09:58 | 1,090 | 53 |
[WP] "Nobody will hear you scream!" the serial killer said to their would-be victim. Too late did they realise that this also means that no one would hear them scream either. | “Oh goodie,” she purred, eyes narrowing to slits, her grin growing, growing, tugging at the corners of a mouth that lengthened into a muzzle, a muzzle whose skin stretched and split and slide off in wet, dense masses, splattering onto the ground around her. Beneath, gleamed white, hard bone. Eyes turned from earthy bro... | The rain pattered gently against the pavement, the only sound in the dark night. My footsteps echoed in the silence as I made my way towards my destination.
I could see the light coming from the windows of the old abandoned warehouse, and I knew that's where he would be. He always chose places like this.
In the week ... | 2022-10-25T16:13:30 | 2022-10-25T13:39:59 | 100 | 55 |
[WP] Your mom makes you stop playing video games and drag you to the sidewalk. "See. This is the outdoors" she says. You look in horror, for you have seen this before, it is the first level of the game you were playing, and you know what is gonna happen next. | "See. This is the outdoors!" I hear my mother say, for the 299th time.
"Real World Simulator" it's called, modeled after one of those "insert dull activity" simulators that were all the rage in the 10's. They were often buggy, and sometimes unintentionally hilarious. There were even more than a few games created paro... | I like singleplayer games. I really do. Maybe it’s related to the fact that I can’t shoot for shit in most of today’s multiplayer games. Maybe. Just maybe. *Fuck you* for being able to do otherwise! Ah damn... I’m stressed. I really am. This situation is just all kinds of messed up. I got kicked out of the house t... | 2019-01-03T10:01:05 | 2019-01-03T06:06:55 | 102 | 32 |
[WP] Your girlfriend wants a church wedding. You are madly in love with her, and don't want to lose her. However, you also don't know how to explain to her that you are almost sure that you're the Antichrist, and bad things always happen when you enter a church. | "I think we should have the wedding outside, Annette. Early summer, all the flowers will be blooming. Butterflies everywhere." My hands are wet with nervous sweat as I watch her pace through the living and dining rooms.
"You *know* I want to get married at that church. My family has gotten married in that church for ... | "It's going to be *beautiful*, honey! I just know it!"
"Yeah. I...I know." I swallowed hard, and I couldn't help but notice that my tongue felt like it was made of parchment. Behind me, the sweeping buttresses and stained glass of the chapel loomed into the sky like a castle. She was right, of course. It *was* beauti... | 2016-10-10T13:02:44 | 2016-10-10T12:44:32 | 53 | 31 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | The rattle of war trophies impacted the khan’s chest as his ship’s shields shuddered from the impact of infinite kelvin weaponry above the Thoran bunker world of artzegat- things were going poorly.
the khan ordered to reorient his ship, his H.U.R.T. drive forcing him into his seat as the ship’s nose lurched foreword... | The meeting took place in a bunker multiple hundreds of meters below the soil of an unknown planet within the solar system.
"Are you sure it is completely safe to speak here?"
"It seems I trust dirt and steel more than you."
"If you trust this place, I will too, I guess."
"So let's begin then."
"Ah, yes, so... wh... | 2020-04-16T12:05:46 | 2020-04-16T08:19:10 | 175 | 110 |
[WP] You're on a hiking trip alone in the woods, when you find a glass bottle. In the bottle, a note. "I'm trapped 3000 years in the past! There is a time machine located in the rock to your left. Help!" | Tom was looking at the note in awe. He turned it around and around, looking for some hidden clue, or just a message saying that it was just a joke, but there was nothing at all. The bottle looked innocent enough: It was a green one, reflecting the sunlight into Tom's eyes.
It was starting to get dark when Tom finally... | My legs dangled thoughtfully over the cliff as I tossed the device between my hands, contemplating the impossible. I knew it wasn't real; how could time travel ever work? And besides, how could the note have survived 3000 years, somehow knowing it would be found today?
But it didn't stop me imagining. What would it be... | 2017-10-08T02:05:06 | 2017-10-08T01:03:03 | 1,019 | 323 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Best private school LA
LA public school system
Jobhunter LA
Budget kids clothes
How to fix a leaky faucet
Modern student backpacks
How to qualify for an education loan
Return Klip-pack 9000
Amazon Ninja Turtles rolling backpack
Rain jacket size small
What to do if your apartment floods
Budget plum... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T17:13:32 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You're the best assassin in the business. You've taken hundreds of jobs, all of them succeeded without any hiccups. Your secret? You don't mess around with monologues, sneaking in, magic powers, seduction or anything fancy like that. you just find a nice sniper perch and take the shot. | Sam Yule scoffed as he watched his mark through the scope of his rifle. Benny was there, as expected. He had been elbowing up to that wealthy old man for weeks, the mop of red hair impossible to miss amidst the crowds of celebrities and the well to do at all the latest sorties. At least, all the ones frequented by Arla... | Strange request but I'll take it. I've been in the business for years now and I know my way around. Clients are usually strange people. Stranger than the targets. But not this time.
I was invited by an old woman to a mansion where we would talk. The first unusual occurrence. The mansion was huge. I ascended the stair... | 2020-11-08T14:13:49 | 2020-11-08T12:12:25 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | "Big Stander! Big Stander go on Walkie Time?"
"No...no walkie time right now, Bubs, I want you to tell me about the corner."
He whinged and fidgeted. The brow over his big, round eyes dipping down and then slightly up over the bridge of his snout.
"Bad Dog?"
"No, no, Bubs. You're a good dog. I just want to know w... | "Um... excuse me? Can you hear me?" the tall scientist tapped on the microphone as he peered through the glass separating him from a massive machine. In the machine, sat a dog. Strapped down but noticeably calm, the canine had electrodes protruding from his head.
"Yes"
came the reply from the speakers in the room. "T... | 2015-05-18T14:37:16 | 2015-05-18T12:25:48 | 504 | 269 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | To: HR department of Hell
From: Norman
Cc: Satan
I honour you otherworldly beings.
I appreciate your work and see the importance of your tasks. But i think there has been an error. You see, i was always a faithful human. Stayed in line, did my work. Never been any trouble to anyone! Of course a few missteps here and ... | “Why? What did I do to deserve this?”
Charon the gatekeeper just looked down. “If you want to dispute this sentence. Then you will have to speak to management. However I don.....l
“Well get me the fuckin manager then. This can’t happen to me in life I had thousands of more followers on social media then any of my... | 2018-09-26T07:04:35 | 2018-09-26T06:56:58 | 156 | 74 |
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