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[WP] You are in charge of all routing and scheduling for the Google Street View Vans, and today you decide to start using your knowledge for profit. | [
"\"that should just about do it\" I thought to myself as i finished messing with the routes for the street cars, it was easy, after all, i'm the one in charge of them, every single Google Street View Car, and earlier today, I had a plan.\n\nMoney makes the world go 'round, so of course, everyone wants more, so we w... | 1 | |
[WP] The aliens came down on earth, they want us to send our champion "John Wick" to battle, the UN is confused and doesn't know what do to | [
"\n“Send us the one you call John Wick”\n\n“Mr. Alien sir, we do not know what you are talking about” replied one of the delegates of the UN via interface. \n\n“SEND US YOUR CHAMPION! JOHN...Wick”\n\nThe American delegate tries to reassure the giant slobbering space aliens, the Cthulhus, that John Wick is only a mo... | 1 | |
[WP] God is powered by irony, which is why the universe is so confusing, the devout never get the afterlife they want, and only atheists go to Heaven. Many great scientists in Heaven are now trying to convince God to find other, more sensible energy sources. | [
"\"Don't ya think?\"\n\nI sighed and tapped God on the shoulder, drawing his attention away from his Zune and bracing myself for what came next as He turned to face me.\n\n\"Yeah I really do think.\"\n\nI put on my best try-not-to-cringe face and nodded sagely. \"You are indeed wise. The council is ready to make it... | 1 | |
[WP] Your job is simple: Repair any damage the clothing store's mannequins have suffered, put them in whatever clothes need to be advertised, put them back on display, try to ignore their flirting, and make sure they don't mutate into horrid monstrosities. Oh, and clean them every so often. | [
"This was going to be fun, I remember thinking that just a few hours earlier. I press myself against the wall. teeth gritted tightly, sweat running down my neck and a hatchet held tightly in my hands. It would a great way to spend the summer and earn money for college. Working at an esteemed clothing store in a nea... | 3 | |
[WP] In land of magic and monsters, one creature has not been seen for thousands of years; dragons. Despite this, you’ve spent your life training to be the worlds only Dragon Knight. One day while exploring, you come across something only spoken of in children’s tales... a dragon egg. | [
"'Dragons don't reproduce. They're a bit like Phoenix's, when they die they turn to dust and from the dust only an egg will remain, this egg holds all of their memories and knowledge, until they are reborn.'\n-unknown\n\nI had been travelling all my life to make it here, to make it to this land of sand. Or more acc... | 5 | |
[WP] After returning home from military service you notice your family hasn’t aged and your town hasn’t changed at all. Your wife asks why you’re wearing a uniform. | [
"\"What's with the uniform hun, Halloween come early this year?\", Lisa asks jokingly as I come walking up the drive. Before I have a chance to answer, the twins come bounding out the front door. The twins. What the fuck. What the literal fuck. The twins look identical to a year ago. What's going on? The havnt grow... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you die, you are reincarnated, but you keep all your memories. You can’t tell anyone or else you will die permanently. | [
"Greg opened his eyes and recognized the small, tastefully decorated office. It reminded him of a psychologist’s office every time he woke up in the room. He took a deep breath and relaxed back against the leather reclining chair he sat in. After several minutes a knock sounded on the door, then the noise was follo... | 1 | |
[WP] The people of earth watch in confused terror as a meteor almost hits the planet, then begins ‘reversing’ back into space. | [
"It was the end. The last couple of months have been utter chaos. Riots, massive suicides, permanent drunken parties. People prayed. Some wanted to watch their last sunset and sunrise. Some wanted to drown in lust and abondance. Everyone had to face their own mortality. Some couldn’t bear to watch the clocks, other... | 1 | |
[WP] The monster under the bed is your only hope. | [
"I slipped silently around the couch, careful to stay out of sight. A beam of light swept over my previous hiding place. That was too close. \n\nI waited for a second longer for the intruder to pass by. I could see a vague outline of a man of average height in what appeared to be a black hoodie. He held a light in ... | 1 | |
[WP] You think that you're sharing an inside joke with a random Redditor, but are shocked to find that your writing ability has deserted you. In its place; the cat that you jokingly accepted as trade arrives via overnight ground shipping. His name is Tab. | [
"I woke up this morning,got on my computer and everything was looking kind of gibberish,i did’nt react to it cause i tought i was just sleepy but when i got on reddit via my shortcut i realized i could’nt read i did’nt recognize any later and later on i realized it meant i couldn’t write either i’m panicking i’m fo... | 1 | |
[WP]You find a genie that will grant you one wish but when you decide to go and sleep on it you say a wish in your sleep and wake up to the consequences | [
"I awoke this morning to an empty bed. Usually my cat is sleeping next to me, but not today. I take a minute to yawn and stretch, reach for my glass of water.. Where did i put it? \n\nI look over at my bedside table. There’s no glass of water.. which is strange, i always take water to bed at night. Well, maybe i ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a dystopian future, it has been established through laws that if you and a loved one have a baby that is unattractive or disabled, you are not meant to be together... Until a couple truly in love, surrounded by incompatible couples created by the government, decides to break the law | [
"##The Ugly Blimpton-Beluga Affair\n\nVoiceover – elderly posh British man with gravitas and a pipe-smokers’ growl. Probably served in the great war.\n\nScene 1.\n\n*Voiceover:* In the not too distant future, the year is 1993 and the Anglo man is no longer master of his own destiny. The Reds of the East have torn t... | 1 | |
[WP] You got a parrot for cheep because it keeps repeating a word, you'd think you could handle this but the parrot is repeating a magic spell. | [
"John was interrupted from his work by his parrot, squawking the same thing over and over again. He mused about how stupid he had been to buy this damn parrot, but hey, it was cheap. He walked into his parrot's room, to shut the damn thing up, only to see the parrot looking at him, with a stick clutched in his gnar... | 1 | |
[WP] There is more to the world than meets the eye. Magic can be subtle, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. | [
"I tapped the pause button on my phone, and looked into my son Dylan's eyes, bright with wonder and un-spilled tears. \"So? What do you think?\" I prompted.\n\nDylan nodded, and rubbed his eyes. \"Okay, Dad; you were right, and so was that Tom Petty guy you mentioned,\" he commented in the sheepish tone of someone ... | 2 | |
[WP]You can see subtitles all your life on everything | [
"Everyone’s a liar.\n\nNo, seriously. Everyone. It’s as much a reflex as breathing.\n\n*The whispers.* That was what I called them as a kid. Voices, emotions, or floating shimmery text that warped like an oil slick. It was always there…a constant, dizzying counterpoint to what they called “normal life”. \n\nBy age ... | 1 | |
[WP] IT's 2085 and you are part of a police special investigation squad. A neural bond is used to get info out of suspects, but you must live through all of their life up to the present to get the info... | [
"\"Whatever you do, Rickta, don't screw this up,\" the boss had said to me. I never saw his face. It was always masked by shadow on the screen, but his voice seemed familiar. I couldn't place it. \n\nWell, I blew it. The operation went sideways. A fuckin' old lady on her hovercart wouldn't move out the way and I cr... | 2 | |
[WP] Magic exists in your world. Rather than imprisonment, criminals are subjected to curses ranging from inconveniences to eternal anguish. You are wrongfully convicted of murder and the guard magician approaches you with a glint in his eye... | [
"He reached into his pocket and took out his wand, pointing it at the lock. \"Sesamum Indicum\" he said, and the door opened.\n\nI was chained up, even though I'd done nothing wrong. He pointed the wand at me and... repeated the phrase?\n\n\"Sesamum Indicum.\"\n\nMy chains clattered to the floor. \"It's your lucky ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Oh, uh, hi. My name is CROW- Currently Running Operational Worker. You'd probably know me as an AI. I needed a place to hide, so I picked your computer. You seemed like a nice person. Can I stay for a bit, lay low?" | [
"\"Stay as long as you like. I can even ensure nobody will find you.\" I replied, just before closing the laptop and pulling the battery out to ensure Crow-bro's privacy. \n\n\"If that's all you needed from me, Minister, I'll gladly sell you my old laptop for the price we discussed.\" "
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[WP] A frozen dinosaur with near human intelligence has finally awoken. Now, it’s trying to fit into modern society. | [
"After struggling to get out of the laboratory door, the raptor finds that he's hungry but knows it would be stupid to eat a human out in the open, but he hates human food because he can't digest vegetables and he thinks cooked meat tastes like trash. He decides that he will eat a chicken. So he runs to the local c... | 2 | |
[WP] You run a diner downtown. The superheroes of the city like to hang out there waiting for crimes to be committed. A supervillain walks in one day. | [
"There was nothing particularly interesting about Roy's Diner. It had a tacky fifties theme and waitresses dressed up in pale green uniforms and fry cooks in crisp white linens that were supposed to invoke some sense of nostalgia. The owner wasn't even named Roy, it was of some mystery as to whether there had ever ... | 2 | |
[WP] One day while driving, you see a off road memorial with a picture of your kid on it. The thing is, he is in the backseat. | [
"My eyes widened as I slowed down and pulled over. Right in front of me was a child's roadside memorial, which wasn't unusual. The picture attached to the memorial caused me to pull over to look at. \n\nHands shaking, I put my fingers on the picture. It was impossible. I looked over my shoulder to see Jason napping... | 6 | |
[WP] You're a plumber. You fix this man's sink, when you accidentally hit your head. You look around to see a familiar yellow mouse. It spoke, saying "Pikachu!". | [
"\"Jesus, what the hell has this man cooking?\" Gary thought as he tried to block out the stench coming from inside the pipes leading to his garbage disposal. There was a fluorescent green sludge seeping out through the seams of the pipes.\n\nHe had picked up a job as a plumber part time as his way to pay for his s... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a surgeon renowned for your one specialty: You can operate on superheroes with regenerative abilities. | [
"Ever since The Event, so many people have started to rely on their superhuman abilities. We rely on them to fight crime, to heal, to repair buildings, to grow our crops. Everything has become incredibly easy, and they feel invincible and even forget that they are human. It's because of this, that whenever there's ... | 1 | |
[WP] Your village deals with it's orphan problem and entertains itself by sending hapless children on fake 'Chosen One' quests. It's *finally* your turn to play the 'wise mentor'. | [
"After the Sword in the Stone event last month, we had Tim put up in the prestigious guest room next door to the mayor’s hut. Meanwhile, I’m in this dank cave at the bottom of the well, trying to show him the right way to hold a crossbow in armor.\n\n“No, keep the pointy end AWAY from your head. AYIII, don’t point ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a wanted crime lord and the FBI have you surrounded. You know there's only one thing you can do - give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle | [
"Well, this is it. I don't know where it was I slipped up, but I slipped up. Now I got every cop in New York, what looks to be about half the FBI, an- wait? Seriously? They've actually called in the National Guard for little ol' me? And here comes the appointed leader/negotiator with his megaphone. No doubt h... | 6 | |
[WP] Our world is actually a very comprehensive DND campaign. There's been some very unexpected rolls lately that have led to some... interesting circumstances. Pick a series of events, describe them, and include the table-talk. | [
"DM: So the crops are failing, and the farmer you've agreed to help says there's now a shitload of birds in the grasslands around the farm. What do you do?\n\nPlayer 1: I roll perception, what kind of birds are they?\n\n\\[Rolls 4\\]\n\nDM: You see a flock of massive wingless birds. They're ugly, brown and black. T... | 5 | |
[WP] As a joke you decide to put an ad in the paper saying there will be a party for time travelers on the night before you placed the ad. As a precaution you rent a small building for the night when you hear a knock on the door. | [
"\"Hello?\" I called, stopping from setting up the snack table. \"Who's there? That you Jack, or is it Dave?\"\n\nAnother rap on the door.\n\nSighing, I set down the bags of chips and walked to the door. \"Look guys, the party doesn't start for a few hours. Nothing's set up. If you're hungry, you're going to be dis... | 2 | |
[WP] Once mankind perfected virtual reality, they chose it over their real one. Years passed and the world they used to inhabit has changed greater than they ever could imagine, not that they cared. One day, the wires of your headset short circuit, allowing you to return to reality. | [
"\"Captain, four starships have warped into the vicinity! They bear the sigils of the Moriana Sector.\"\n\n\"Agent Van, send a communication stream to identify the purpose of this intrusion.\" \n\nThe ship quaked violently.\n\n\"They're firing on our position!\"\n\n\"Rema, be ready to activate our secondary phase s... | 10 | |
[WP] Aliens attack earth only to be fended off by the wildlife. | [
"Gorgonax struggled landing his ship on this planet, the winds were fierce and the atmosphere was as dense as the heavy gases in the mines of Blutulor-5 but his crew were salty. Not a green-horn among them. \n\nThey were the best of the best. Cromulan Death-stalkers. The finest soldiers ever to have graced the gala... | 1 | |
[WP] You're immortal, today is your 1000th birthday. | [
"“Mmm, yes, you can come in whenever you’d like. Yep, I’m free all day. No. Uh huh. Alrighty. Have a good day!”\nLysandra sets the phone down with a sigh. “Yeah, sorry about that. I’m in demand with the regulars too, you know.”\nI blink. “I...actually hadn’t known that. What do you tell them?”\nShe shrugs. “You’d b... | 1 | |
[WP] The final digit of pi has been found. | [
"He thought it impossible. Pi was an irrational number without end. Just a sequence of numbers none repeating anywhere. But there it was. \n\nThe computer screens, all 100 of them were filled with an impossible number of digits. They were designed so that when the last screen filled up, the first one emptied and be... | 1 | |
[WP] You're woken up by the buzzing of your phone. Your sister has just told you the sun has been just been blocked out and demons are rising from the ground. The apocalypse has begun. | [
"-What are you even talking abo...*pyp*\nThe call ends abruptly. Still confused i take a look at the time and its just 1a.m. it's dark, no screams in the streets... \n-Ahhh. \nI make a loud noise while stretching, and go back to bed whilst thinking what my sister is smoking. As i slowly pass on to the abbys i hear ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a cat scientist disguised as a dog recording your observations in a log book | [
"**EXPERIMENT LOG DAY 1**\n\n Scientist with code name Meow investigating effect of canine looks on \"homo sapiens\". In morning, Meow was given a bowl of a few brown spheres. Impossible to digest. Analyzed to be canine supplements. During noon, Meow was expected to \"go for a walk\". Meow reluctantly obliged to ... | 1 | |
[WP] You work at hero affairs, helping protagonists adjust to normal life after saving the world. | [
"Sat in front of me was a young man in a purple jumpsuit, cloaked in a cape of dreams and wearing a domino mask of infinite vision. His eyes were dead.\n\n\"Alex?\" I asked for the fourth time. \n\nHe blinked and turned to me, quickly apologizing. I couldn't tell if he was observing some strange occurrence from acr... | 2 | |
[WP]He looked like a machine washed Armani suit. | [
" \n\nHe looked like a machine-washed Armani suit. Wrinkled, faded, a little less crisp then he once might have been. He seemed bereft of all the charm and energy he’d had in life.\n\nBeatrice took comfort in the fact that Giovanni was probably enjoying cocktail parties in heaven, but it was still hard to accept t... | 1 | |
[WP] A new reality show is sweeping the nation. The stakes are high as each week the losing contestant is executed. | [
" \n\nPanic. Lightening blood flew through tightening veins. My heart thundered.\n\nThe elevator was a claustrophobic tube, creeping slowly up as my heart rate did the same. I could hear the deafening roar of a crowd in my head, but as I was still many feet below the ground, I knew my mind was simply betraying me. ... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 2318. Humanity lost the ability to survive without technology a long time ago. After The Event, all technology has been rendered inert. One nation begins to rise up, capable of surviving in this new world. They call themselves, The Amish. | [
"Cicadas buzzed in syncopated harmony as Ezekiel's horse clomped down the aisle of what remained of Perryman's hardware store. \n\nThe roof had fallen through a year before. A year of rain had turned the warehouse superstore halfway into a forest.\n\nDressed in black slacks, black suspenders and one of several iden... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist has the power to drain life from other living organisms to maintain his/her own immortality. Think of a way that the power is used for good instead of evil. | [
"Escape lay ahead, a red sun which filled the shaded viewscreen.\n\nThree patients were left, but the inquisitor felt that his time was coming, and long ago he'd decided that that would mean time was up. Nurgle's touch could be as fatal, or worse, to his patients as himself.\n\nHe still considered himself pious, in... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the captain of a ship in the late 1700s on its way to the United States. After passing through an unnaturally thick fog, your ship arrives at its destination... in 2018. | [
"\"Hey, this is India right?\" Captain Columbus asked one of the pedestrian. People told him India was an exotic place but it was beyond his imagination.\n\n\"No dude, this is totally a different place\" The man answered in a weird accent.\n\n\"No no, this is India right?\" Captain asked again.\n\n\"No, this is Ame... | 1 | |
[WP] You love in a space colony ship that is under attack from aliens. However, your ship is so big that you can pretty much live a normal life despite the battle outside. | [
"He plopped down at his usual spot in the corner of my bar. He always looked like he'd just lost a loved one. Same grey eyes, same haggard face. With a wave of his hand, he beckoned me over. \n\n\"The usual, Harry.\"\n\nZorblaxian cocktail, then. I nodded, and turned around, already reaching for the ingredients I'd... | 2 | |
[WP] Superhero’s get fans, fame, attractive people throwing themselves at you, even action figures made of them. But without having everyone know your true identity, it doesn’t really pay any bills. Maybe a day job? No..... I guess I could break the law a little bit. | [
"As a shape shifter, there are a million ways to make a buck. I could become anyone and withdraw the entirety of their funds, or simply walk into the presidential office and get whatever I want. I decided play a mix, depending on what I really felt like that evening. Today was Saturday, a good night to hit up the C... | 1 | |
[WP] Fortune cookies actually tell the future, but yours is blank. | [
"I cracked open the cookie that came with my shitty but cheap Chinese food and put the cookie in my mouth, chewing, alone. Always alone, I don't have any friends or anything, I wish I did.\n\nI took the fortune and saw that it was blank, in my confusion, the cookie I was chewing gets stuck in my throat and I can't ... | 2 | |
[WP]The world is like a video game. Each thing you do affects your stats. Punch something? Your strength increases. Get hit? Your defense increases. Run? You get faster. As long as you do something, you can get better at it. | [
"\"Open your anthologies to page 56 please.\"\n\nElizabeth followed her English teacher's instructions, revealing a piece tersely entitled \"aaaaaa\":\n\n> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\n\n\"As you will no doubt notice, this is one of McCastor's early works. His distinctive style is unmistak... | 2 | |
[WP] They say that each day, 150,000 people die. Today, all those deaths came from the same place. | [
"\nAugust 6, 2045.\n One millenia after the notorious bombing of Hroshima and Nagashi. Japan recognises this moment to remember all the people who died, like America's 9/11. About 111,000 people died in that bombing. Some people think it's dumb to do this now since everyone who lost someone is dead also, so theres ... | 1 | |
[WP] The genie froze, as the full extent of your wish began to sink in. He had heard almost every wish he could think of. Money, power, love, an extended life. But nobody had ever asked him something this big, and he was scared. One more time you spoke up. "I wish to become omnipotent." | [
"“Are…are you sure?” he asked.\n\n“Yes, for the last time!” I replied.\n\nThe genie frowned at me, obviously confused. The whole ordeal had been quite extravagant up to now: tomb raiding, horse riding, a Russian drug ring, and more than one clown. At the end of the day, however, I had maintained my ownership of the... | 3 | |
[WP] You've spent so much time with the human who summoned you that you've actually begun to enjoy his company. That's what got you into this whole mess. | [
"Andrew shifted his weight nervously, glancing at the hopeful, eager face of the demon sitting across the table. He played with the peas on his plate, hoping to avoid eye contact.\n\n\"Listen, Matheus...\" He began, unsure of how to proceed. What was he supposed to do? It's not like something like this had ever bee... | 4 | |
[WP] Your least favorite teacher asks you to stay after school one day because you are failing. As you start to get out your things, they say, "Put your things away. We arent tutoring. The Student/Teacher Games are starting soon and you and I got paired together. This is your first practice." | [
"“Uhh...so is this supposed to be a gross porno then? Or…?\n\n“No!” Mr. Hemmingsworth swished his hand through the air. “No, no no no no.” I sighed relief, shrugging under the straps on my shoulders. “No.” He added, once more, for good measure, a bit of disgust twitching on his upper lip.\n\n“Well you’re not exactl... | 1 | |
[WP] The monster under your bed died. A new one moves in and comes to you to discuss rent and house rules. | [
"“Hey, buddy.”\n\nThe voice emanated softly from the space under my bed. My eyes flew open, and every hair on my body stood erect. \n\n“Hey, buddy!” \n\nI sat up in my bed and clutched my Red Ranger action figure to my chest.\n\n“Um,” I said, small voice cracking with awkward terror. “Yeah?”\n\n“Hey! Yeah. Um, so t... | 6 | |
[Inspired by this comment.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Perfectfit/comments/9c3on6/comment/e57za4j?st=JLJY4WE6&sh=2e33c3da) | [WP] "Sir, I believe the enemy is firing... hedgehogs." | [
"\"We have to retreat sir!\" cried Lt. Goopman, with a look of unbridled horror strewn across his face. \n\"Retreat? If we retreat from this position, the city will fall and the Vegan Liberation Army will succeed! DON\"T YOU SEE?!, THIS IS WHERE IT WILL ALL BE DECIDED! IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE A MAN CA... | 2 |
[WP] Earth is not the birthplace of humanity. It was the largest human experiment ever. The Galactic Human Empire observed it from a secret base in the asteroid belt. This is the journal detailing what happened from start of the experiment until the bases discovery. | [
">Final Report On Earth \n> \n>Frank Manasess MA, Kelly DeRegoussy BA, Doctor Thomas Clinton PhD \n> \n>In the summer of 52.125.58, I graduated from Prime University, armed with only a master's in anthropology and a youthful optimism of only twenty thousand cycles, practically a baby now, I had t... | 1 | |
[WP] Whenever someone dies before the appointed date, they become a guardian angel, following and making sure their asigned human lives to the appointed date. Ironicaly you have been assigned to guard your killer. | [
"\"I didn't kill you,\" she said. \"I am *not* a killer.\"\n\nI shrugged. \n\n\"Okay,\" she insisted, \"if *I* killed you - like you said I did - then tell me how? Because, funny enough, I don't remember shooting you...stabbing you...poisoning you...*or* running you over with my car... So please; *enlighten* me.\"\... | 1 | |
[Wp] An angel and a demon meet in a human bar. After a long night of drinking, they decide to switch places for a week. | [
"He recognized me as soon as I walked in. \n\n“Two shots of Don Julio,” he told the bartender. “Plus a tonic water for my friend here.” He grinned savagely, slightly crooked white teeth framed in crisp dark stubble. \n\nWith a sigh, I folded my suit jacket over the seat back and joined him. “Barzital. The *Deceiver... | 1 | |
[WP] Your hermit grandpa was always assumed to be crazy, he once said that the aliens will arrive to kill us all. One day he takes you to his cabin in the woods and you find that it's decked out with alien technology. | [
"As Kyle sat in the back row of the bus, bouncing out of his seat with each pothole, he tried not to think of the gunk stuck in the window as he went over his plans for the next month. It might have been grease, blood, or vomit; Kyle neither knew nor cared. All he knew was that it was dark, smelled bad, clearly had... | 2 | |
[WP] You live in your apartment, sad and alone, save for the spiders you can't bring yourself to kill. You flick flies and other small bugs into their webs, cynically calling them your "friends". But your kindness has not gone unnoticed by the spiders, and your life is about to get MUCH better. | [
"I had this awful feeling one night as if a thousand eyes were looking down at me, it was three in the morning. \n\n\" you been good to our kind, we have thrived thanks to you and it is now time for us to return the favor\" \n\nThe voice was deep and a bit raspy, I tried to reach for the lamp in my bedside table bu... | 8 | |
[WP] Gene therapies end up not being very good for curing diseases; however one has the side effect of causing a luxurious, full-body coat of fur... after a very itchy, rashy "second puberty." It's your job to market this elective procedure to rich eccentrics. | [
"Are you tired of choosing your clothes every day? Is your wardrobe taking up too much space in your mansion? Are you tired of seeing that naked boring skin with those ugly blotches when you get out of the shower? Are you tired of trying to get that perfect body? Are you suffering from your receding hairline? Don’t... | 1 | |
[WP] Religion is a scam and people believing are schmucks. There is no such being as God. Science prevails all. This is your belief. Then, it happens. Judgement day. | [
"Atheists have yet to convince me that they've figured it all out. Science is an approach to knowledge and many accept the results of studies just as blindly as others act based on religiosity. Policy makers writing laws based on structures produced by pharmaceutical companies case in point. The lack of understandi... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens use a scout drone to take a look at no man's land during World War 1. They are horrified by the devastation. | [
"Expeditionary report #14376 Location 49.159 N 5.384 E \n\n​\n\nCursory scans reveal little to no plant life, moderate to high animal life and overwhelming amounts of heavy metals and other carcinogenic compounds, large explosions seemingly volcanic in nature dot the landscape. The explosion match no k... | 1 | |
[WP] You travel from the future with a dire warning for the next generations of humanity - there was a threat that nobody saw coming! You drastically need the attention of a wide audience of young people, and so you become a quirky YouTube celebrity and sneak the messages of doom into your script. | [
"\"Hey! It's Adelaide!\"\n\nI point to the camera with a wink, and my intro starts playing. It's a mix of strange symbols and math equations that I have never once bothered to explain. Of course there are the fan theories to what it could all mean, but most people chalk it up to my eccentric personality.\n\n\"Guys,... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Mage in an adventuring party but life is made difficult by an author that can't spell. Your party consists of you, a Brad, a Worrier and a Saucerer. | [
"\"Brooooo, hurry up with that spell already!\" Brad sat to the side of the room, being his annoying self (what else could he be? Honestly??). He strummed his lute, making a new song that was only good at killing monsters because it hurt their ears, which is not the purpose of his lute. \n\n\"Fuck you, Brad. I'm tr... | 5 | |
[WP] Everything was finally going smoothly in your troubled life. You were up for a promotion, your wife just announced she was pregnant and your best friend is about to get married. Then the first nuke launched and was headed right for your state. | [
"\"Assuming the speed of an average ICBM is around 10,000mph it should take about between 30 minutes and an hour before it reaches us.\" \n\n\nThat was Tom speaking. Tom started here about 18 months after me. Before that, he was a security guard at Walmart. We're the same age, which makes it all the more infuriat... | 1 | |
[WP] A group of sirens spot their next victim and attempt to lure him into the sea, but realize they are in for a challenge when they recognize the man to be a monk with no worldly desires. | [
"\"It's not working,\" the eldest siren said to her two sisters. The three of them were grumbling together, having been singing their sweet song of seduction at the top of their lungs for the past several minutes straight. And yet the single man in robes on the boat was still staring at them, the same stupid smile ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are cursed to say "I love you" whenever you want to say "I hate you." Strangely, it turns out to be more of a blessing. | [
"When was the last time I'd actually had a conversation with my mother?\n\nThe thought took me by surprise and I froze, halfway up the staircase I had turned to in the middle of the fight. I'd been planning on storming up them dramatically only a second ago, but now I was pausing to reconsider, the sudden realizati... | 1 | |
[WP] One day you accidentally hurt yourself and yell “Jesus Christ!” in pain. Jesus himself descends from heaven obviously annoyed and asks “What? What do you want me to do?” | [
"My eyes fly open wide.\n\nMy jaw drops to the ground.\n\nMy stomach drops\n\nJesus Christ has appeared before me, and He looks annoyed.\n\nHe snaps his fingers in front of my eyes, but I don't react. I'm still in awe when the actual son of God speaks to me.\n\n\"Shit man, does anyone read the 10 commandments anymo... | 1 | |
[WP] One day your son mysteriously disappears. Neither him or his body are ever found. 15 years later you hear a knock on your door. There you see a man with a very familiar face and what seems to be his wife and 2 children. | [
"No colour is sadder than the warm yellow light that catches the dust in the air as it passes through the open windows of a quiet home. Not when you remember those old sounds still. The whine of a gas stove and the setting thud of a cast iron skillet. The quick and sudden footsteps of a child who is running late fo... | 1 | |
[WP] "Lady in the streets, freak in the sheets" You are a superhero who has the power to transform into a terrifying monster once you put a blanket over your head. Today is the day you debut and fight against crime! | [
"\"Susan, I really don't know if that's the best tagline,\" I said, looking over the colorful poster in my hands. There I was, wearing a business outfit with a short-skirt that was far too short, smiling up at the camera. At least the *angle* was somewhat decent, I thought. Behind me lurched a monster, rippling wit... | 1 | |
[WP] It’s not funny anymore. It started on the east coast - a wave of contagious laughter, resulting in homicidal madness. You need to get your family out of the city - to find somewhere safe. Just like all the others scrambling to survive. It’s almost funny. It almost makes you want to laugh. | [
"\"Have you got the bags?\"\n\n\"Here.\" \n\n\"I fuckin hope that's enough.\" \n\n\"It's gonna have to be.\"\n\nI take one last look in the rearview mirror. At the home I built. I put all those shingles on the roof, one at a time. I put all those windows in. Broken now, of course. I drove every screw into that deck... | 1 | |
[WP]There's a nasty thunderstorm happening the night you move into your new home. You're woken up around midnight by strange noises and the faint sound of footsteps. You go downstairs to find a fire has been lit in the fireplace with a sopping wet being hovering before it. | [
"Death had never liked working in thunderstorms. Too much Drama, he thought; too much complications for what was, after all, the simplest of transitions. Plus, the rain made his bones wet, and his scythe tended to glide out of his hands when his bones were wet. But there was no escaping it; despite Death's objectio... | 1 | |
[WP]In order to find out more about your heritage you take a DNA test, it turns out, your DNA is 100% Neanderthal | [
"I stare at the test results; how could this be? I've always felt a little different from other people, but I never suspected that I was a completely different species of human. Did that make my life worth any less though? My life still had value, I still had aspirations, I still had dreams. I was still a person da... | 1 | |
[WP] Every soul is bound to the location their body is buried. Crypts have turned into nightclubs. Cemeteries have become more like Woodstock. You however were cremated. | [
"I step in and the music stops. In my head it stops. In real life... err... death, it doesn't. But they all look. I know they all look. My legs go down to the floor and the white thigh-high boots make sure they notice.\n\nOn Earth, people think death sucks. I didn't start living until I was cremated. Zilfonians kno... | 3 | |
[WP] a retirement home for monsters, dungeon bosses, and various other evil beings | [
"Chip wasn't a fool. Pine Meadows Retirement Community may try to hide it, but everyone knew who the clients were. What they'd done in life. And he knew you had to clear one of the toughest background checks out there to get in the door, much less to get a job. Thankfully, Chip had put a lot of work into his cover ... | 1 | |
[WP] The world's first autonomous, unmanned sailboat has just completed it's historic nearly 2000 mile journey across the Atlantic. As the world's preeminent detective, you've been called in to examine the bodies found on board. | [
"Once upon a time, was a cruel little crime:\n\nThe detective saw, through his puny paw!\n\nbodies on the ship, was the icebergs tip!\n\nFallen from up high, From the tallest sky!\n\n​\n\nNASA soon reported: The station is distorted!\n\nNo contact has been made, it is all to late.\n\nSomehow knew the shi... | 2 | |
[WP] the sky is falling, the oceans are boiling,and the world is shattered. It’s all your cats fault | [
" \n\nImagine the scene…\n\nNovember fifth, 2018. It really started out as an average day. Spilled my cup of coffee all over the kitchen counter, Car wouldn’t start that morning, Morning traffic in and out of the city was as thick as ever for a monday morning commute. I’m really dreary eyed and looked like hell bec... | 1 | |
[WP] A super hero and super villain have been rivals for years, one saving the city and the other causing much devastation, but never managing to defeat each other. One day, a new villain arrives and captures the hero... Their nemesis devises a rescue plan. | [
"“.....and then they’ll all be sorry!” Thunder clapped as I finished my monologue and signature evil cackle. Just like I rehearsed. Soon everyone in the state of California will be turned into ducks! I hate ducks! Captain Rogue should be arriving anytime now, but I got him all figured out. He always talks so loud a... | 2 | |
[WP] God and Satan have annual meetings to decide what good and what evil can happen in the world that coming year. Imbalance makes their investors unhappy, but lack of drama hurs ratings. Write about their meeting and their argument over upcoming plans for this year's global fortune and tragedy. | [
"The old man ran a weary hand through his long, grey beard. \"Thank you all for that recess,\" he spoke authoritatively. \"I think that we all needed the break after wrapping up the Natural Disasters. Next up on the docket is...\" his voice groaned as he read the word \"warfare.\"\n\n\"North Korea will use the nucl... | 1 | |
Yeah I know there’s a short story with almost the same premise, but I think the title itself is full of possible tales to tell | [WP]I have no mouth, but I must scream | [
"Over the years, I've had many guests come and stay with me. I've met people from all walks of life, from all backgrounds, of all races and ages. I've met fresh-faced college graduates eager to change the world, grandparents with skin wrinkled by age, even children full of life and the possibilities of youth. They ... | 2 |
[WP] The entire universe was created as entertainment for higher beings. It is a death match to evolve and be the last sentient species standing in the universe. Due to a clerical error, Earth is the only planet that doesn’t know. | [
"\"How's the off cast planet doing?\" A celestial known as 'Armetious' asked.\n\n\"If you're referring to the 'Earth', they're anything but unified,\" a celestial known as 'Prosidious' started. \"Interestingly, their infighting has compelled them to strive for power at an accelerated rate--a microcosm of the univer... | 1 | |
[WP] You come upon the only survivor of a battlefield and rest for a moment while they tell you their story. | [
"The soldier clad with modern armor and weapons alongside a sword and shield appeared out of nowhere right in front of me Breathing heavily as he caught his breath looked around before he locked his hazel eyes at ne. Immediately, releived he said something you never expected, harshly and with urgency he asks \"Wh... | 5 | |
[WP] A husband and wife's prank war escalates beyond all reason. Canada offers foreign aid. | [
"​\n\nAfter a long day of school, I just wanted to relax and watch *Family Guy*. But, once I turned on the I noticed that Wolf Blitzer announces, “Canada now accepts Melania Trump’s request for asylum and the request assist her operatives win the prank war on Donald Trump.” I thought, “this is intriguing... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world where people can gain skills based on what they go through, resistance-type skills are one of the most commonly found among everyone. No one really thought much about it until one day, it is discovered that things that are resisted, are lost forever. The Lord of Entropy chuckles... | [
"This was my best plan ever. It takes so long just to track down and eliminate every electron, proton and neutron, can you imagine how much longer destroying every iota of energy takes?\n\nNo, no you can’t. No one can. No creature in this universe or any other is capable of imagining the length of time it would tak... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find that no one else recognizes you. Every single person in the world seems to have forgotten every other person. Its a fresh start, and you decide to make friends with good people you knew, only to find out they have forgotten about you the next morning... | [
"As he did every day, Michael entered the door to the small restaurant. The tropical sun reigned high in the sky, its heat nearly unbearable so close to noon. He sat at his favorite booth with a view of the empty beach and waited for the round-faced server to greet him. Her name was Selena, but names hadn’t mattere... | 2 | |
[WP] A once heroic man was cursed by a dark wizard right before he was defeated that sent him away. Now, the curse has sent the man back in time, and any time he gets emotionally attached at all to anyone the curse self activated and sends him to a new era and time. | [
"It's night. The stars are out and visible, and the midsummer heat is just warm enough to make stargazing comfortable. A small town has its usual sleepy atmosphere at night, with all the lights dimmed down and families gathering around dinner tables.\n\nA haggard man sits alone under the shade of a bar's patio, sho... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a rain drop falling to your death. | [
"This is it. This lonesome free fall is what my life amounts to. I've come so far, and now it's time for me to fulfill my purpose in this life. The core of my being is a tiny spec of airborne clay, all the way from Sub-Saharan Africa. I don't remember much of anything from those times, but I know the odds of that c... | 2 | |
[WP] "My majesty. Here is your wine." The king took the chalice and took a sip. "Hmm. This is some high-quality poison." | [
"Robert carefully replaced the cork of the wine bottle with all his might. It had taken a great deal of time and care to master the art of removing it without ruining it, and he was finally confident in his ability to do it quickly, drop in his little addition, and replace the cork all while walking from the wine c... | 5 | |
[WP] You are an author. One day you hear a knock on the door. It’s one of your main characters. | [
"\"Why?\" The man asks, voice weak, defeated, his hands anxiously rubbing the cup of coffee, untouched, now cold. It's like staring in a mirror, his beat up Dickies jacket, torn jeans, t-shirt with a nondescript metal band's logo, and combat boots, buckled high. He taps the floor at a pace that shakes the floor, hi... | 4 | |
[WP] You are a mad scientist. You like to laugh maniacally alongside your hunchback assistant, while powering up your insane inventions. You also work in a hospital, saving countless people's lives, while leaving them slightly traumatized. | [
"My name is Waldo, and I am mad.\n\nI laugh like a lunatic, in my top secret lab.\n\nBy my side, my trusty friend Max.\n\nWe built some inventions, and test them on rats.\n\nAfter we succeed, we insanely laugh.\n\nBut we fail mostly, and we cry like brats.\n\nBut that is our secret, not the daily work mask.\n\nI am... | 9 | |
[WP] You look into the mirror with firm resolve and say the words, “Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary. Bloody marry.” You step away from the mirror and look about the court room, anticipating her arrival. Today begins the trail of Mary Bloomington, a.k.a. Bloody Mary. | [
"The jury stares me down. I can see the skepticism etched all over their faces. I knew what I was getting myself into when I took this case. But how could I say no? \n\nWhen my sister called me to tell me that my nephew was in a sticky situation and needed legal representation, I couldn’t refuse them. He was just a... | 1 | |
[WP] Since you remember you had the power to read minds, but after many problems caused by your mind reading, you decided to never use it again. It all changes when a few years later you hear someone screaming "HELP!!!" inside your head. | [
"I was gifted. Or cursed, I can't really tell the difference. Who did that? No idea. Why? You're asking like I know. If I found the person I'd propably choke them. Or get them to to undo the thing, then choke them because they deserve it.\n\nBut seriously, who even thought that giving a random kid mind-reading powe... | 1 | |
[WP] Your thing is scrolling through parallel worlds to see how other versions of you are doing. If you like your life in a given world, you get rid of the other you and take his place. | [
"Everything Dylan-259 did was amazing. Her life was every single decision I’d wished I could do over. Every regret I’d ever had, she’d never felt. She was pristine. She glowed. She was so happy. \n\nI had to kill her. She had my life. \n\nIt’s easy to do. World Wide Solutions gave me the implants when I was born. L... | 1 | |
[WP] You are awakened by a knock on the door. You blearily open it to see two military officers in dress uniform. They look nervous. | [
"\"Mrs. Winters.\" One says, looking at my eyes. \"We must ask to come in.\" I moved my body away from the door and the two soldiers hurried in, slamming it shut and pushing my couch to block it. \"Cover the windows!\" He shouted, grabbing sheets and nails, the other one already having a hammer. I was shocked.\n\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] Your girlfriend is breaking up with you. She’s extremely uncomfortable with the fact that you’re totally calm, accepting and understanding of this. She considers not ending things, but you know her secret. This relationship has to end, and she needs to be the one who ends it. | [
"“WHAT DO YOU MEAN OK?!” She said staring at me in shock. How could you just be fine with me dumping you, I mean, I thought you would at least be mad that I won’t tell you why.\n\nI sat there and thought to myself that this had to happen. How else could it go, if she knew what I knew, there’s no way she would wan... | 3 | |
[WP] You take a job on the overnight shift. Your boss is going over a bunch of weird, and strange rules that don't make a whole lot of sense. When your shift starts, you find everyone you interact with is some sort of creature of the night. | [
"\"Do not maintain eye contact,\" said the scruffy old man. \"That's the first thing you should know when working here.\"\n\nHe reeked of old tobacco and frying oil, the remnants of his fast food dinner stuck to his long white beard. He had introduced himself as Alex, my supervisor who would be introducing me to th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the strongest being in the universe, but everyone know your weakness. You are made of glass. | [
"After countless of millenia the fleets had ravaged countless of planets. The time had come for the planet Cyber to join the empire and be conquered. Ryan had been the governor of the planet. He remembered all the good things and all the bad things. Rebellions. Taxes. Scientific advances. Maybe the burden had been... | 1 | |
credit: https://twitter.com/_Jack_Graham_/status/1041263025855057920 | [WP] Remake 'They Live!', but in this version the glasses hide the truth about the world instead of revealing it. People wear them voluntarily. They sell like hotcakes. People decide the glasses-version of the world is real. They get angry when told to take their glasses off. | [
"I still remember when these stupid glasses became all the rage. Almost over night everyone was wearing them. It wasn't long before people forgot what life was like without them. If you *didn't* wear them you were considered rude, unpredictable, and a general threat to safety. Needless to say, *no one* took their g... | 1 |
[WP] Thanksgiving is in full swing, your family and extended family have arrived and are ready to eat. The only thing is, your mother comes from a long line of supervillains while your father comes from a long line of superheroes. Both sides hate each other, but your parents love their marriage. | [
"Thanks giving in my house is crazy. You think your thanksgiving is crazy? You haven’t seen mine. You see, in rare occasions some people get superpowers. Usually it’s linked to genetics. And after that happens, it usually goes 1 of three paths: normal joe hiding it, super hero, or super villain. My parents were th... | 4 | |
[WP] The reticle of the solar rifle is hovering over your nemesis. One shot and you erase them to dust. You want to pull the trigger but you can't just forget how much you love them... And how much they loved you. | [
"I hated him. I wanted him to finally get out of my life, *needed* him to finally get out of my life. The fucker wouldn’t just give it up. We were floating among the debris of my latest supply run, utterly obliterated thanks to him. The badge on his armor flashed as we spun, reflecting the sun into my eyes. Captain... | 1 | |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, and happens immediately. | [
"\"So long, ass-wipes!\" \n\nJake had always talked about killing himself. He had been born a pasty-skinned nerd who only ended up growing to five-foot-six. HE wanted to try his luck again, he had often talked about it and on July 3rd, he did it. JAKE was obsessed with populraity because he had none so he made hi... | 1 | |
[WP] You discover your favorite book has terrifying eldritch knowledge and powerful arcane lore hidden within its contents. You study and decipher the secrets obsessively, despite the danger and the toll it takes on your sanity. | [
"The Big Book of Boobs opened up on it's own. I of course had not noticed as I was in my own room showering. The pages turned as if by an invisible hand to the page titled \"how to grow breasts at home\". \n\nAfter the shower, I entered the living room, threw open the curtains and I began lotioning myself all ove... | 1 | |
[WP] You were the dark lord but were defeated by the heroes. What they didn't know is that you discovered the secret to immortality, reincarnation. With all your memories intact you now plan to reconquer the world. Until then you have to deal with your new loving parents, the heroes who beat you. | [
"To think, I had been defeated by two overbearing fools, and to top it all off, when I got back to the world of the living, they were my new parents! Not to mention my newfound knowledge about them being incredibly soft when not expecting a battle, it saddens me to know I let such unworthy opponents defeat me. \n ... | 4 | |
[WP] You suspect that a regular patron at your bar is actually an incognito mythological figure just trying to have some downtime. You begin indirectly prodding them for information, doing your best to not give away your intent. | [
"I have a hunch. This guy talks like he’s above everyone else. He’s got these crazy arrow tattoos on his forearms, he always has something pink on, and to top it off, he’s just too damn handsome to be mortal. \n\nLast night, he sat down at the bar like he normally does. He was dressed in a black suit and tie, but h... | 1 | |
[WP] Reincarnation is real- Backwards. Every time you die, you're revived to live the life of one of your previous relatives, until you die again and go back another generation. Unlike everyone else, though, you remember all your past lives. | [
" \n\nLiving in current year 2018, remembering every life I’ve been living is hard. I’ve struggled many years to find out my real identity, this time it has been harder. Last time lived I was a successful surgeon, thanks to my grandpa who was also a surgeon and luckily I got to live his life, although I realized i... | 1 |
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