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[WP] You live in a world where everyone has a unique superpower, gained on their 18th birthday. With nearly 108 billion people to have ever lived, the universe seems to be running out of ideas. | [
"\"Really bruh? I got electricity as a power?\" Mike spoke to his little brother Kenny.\n\n\"Look, it's not that bad man. You got a good power.\"\n\n\"The fuck it is. It don't help that I got dreads and I'm black too. How many other heroes you think I'm gonna be compared to?\" Mike ran his hand through his hair.\n\... | 4 | |
[WP] You have a power to see the age of people right above their heads. Nothing interesting. Except when one day you see at number over 800. | [
"I sit on the bench next to him, a slight distance between us. Rather than speak, instead I watch the sunset. \n\nTogether, we watch the passing of time, and I notice a faraway look on his face. Perhaps the only true indication of his age. \n\n\"Give me some advice,\" I tell him. \n\nHe arches a brow, puffing out a... | 1 | |
[WP] You lift the hanging Bedsheet to assure your Daughter that there is no monster Under her bed. She was right. Only, She said 'Mobster', Not Monster. | [
"Dorothea Wimbley was a woman of convictions: She went to church when it suited her, worked double shifts at the library when she could, and devoted as much time as possible to her daughter, Polly. That devotion to encouraging her imagination is what had gotten the two—now three of them into this mess.\n\nProlly ha... | 1 | |
The idea came to me while I was thinking about how convenient it would be if you could just press a button and forget the last 5 minutes or something like that. In my mind, that would be the original purpose of the technology, forgetting things that mildly inconvenience you like hearing a spoiler or watching a particul... | [WP]Humanity has developed technology capable of erasing memories. 30 years ago, everyone had all their memories erased. You are the first to discover why. | [
"\"Mr. President. Your office, and confidential information along with it.\"\n\n\"And the button?\" I inquired.\n\n\"The nuclear button is in another room, sir.\"\n\n\"No, the one to wipe memories.\"\n\n\"I'm sorry sir, I can't remember what you're talking about.\" He smirked a little bit.\n\n\"Cut it, Johnson.\"\n... | 1 |
[WP] Growing up, there was one room in the house you were never allowed to enter, or even approach. The few times you tried, you were punished severely. Now, both your parents have passed, and you are given an envelope. Inside, there is a key, and a note from your father. | [
"For the record, my parents are not perverts. They're just, different. Mom always said you couldn't trust a person who needed to hide behind his apparel. Whatever you say mom. I still love you in spite of things...Anyway. The house is filled with long corridors, stairways that go nowhere, opposing mirrors, and door... | 3 | |
[WP] every time one of your plants dies it's because it's protecting you from evil spirits. You run an orchard. One day your trees begin dying by the hundreds... They're coming | [
"The grove had stood for tens of thousands of years. Lush with white oak trees and lily flowers that bloomed all year round. This ancient grove had stood because of the ancient family who cared for it, my family.\n\n​\n\nI was raised for one thing, I have been trained for one thing. To care for the entra... | 2 | |
[WP] Someone saves your life. As a show of gratitude, you tell them that they are always welcome in your house. Five years later, they die in an accident and appear as a ghost to take you up on your offer. | [
"***And Leave Teardrops Everywhere***\n\n***Fireflies / Ocean Eyes / Owl City***\n\n\"Hey.\" \n\nLooking up, I found myself face to face with the spectral form of a woman. Brown hair, light blue eyes and pale skin, slightly transparent in the faint illumination of the room.\n\n\"Hello there.\" I breathed out. \"It'... | 3 | |
Inspired by a chapter from "[The Wandering Inn](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/10073/the-wandering-inn)" by pirateaba | [WP] A country/race uses mass-produced soldiers who are born and die on the on the same day. You are one of those soldiers. Write about your one day of life. | [
"It's funny, they say time is relative. Time and our experience of it is shaped by life; how long it lasts, what we do with it, and how we choose to feel about it, all play vital roles.\n\nThose that came before us, the so called \"normal ones\" had much richer lives, they lived so much longer, they had so much mor... | 2 |
[WP] You get home, exhausted, single, self-employed. Overall, you would appreciate some company for once. But not like this. | [
"He climbed the last few stairs to the 10th floor, the elevator was out again. He was tired from what had turned out to be the day from hell, his alarm had failed to wake him and he'd missed his train. He'd had to take two buses across town in rush hour traffic and run the last quarter mile to an office building on... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the head physiatrist at a mental rehab center. One night, a noise downstairs in your house wakes you up at 2:13am. You go down and find a person that appears to be you sitting in your study. | [
"You'd never expect where I'm standing now, based on what has happened.\n\nTen years ago, I took a new job as the head psychiatrist for a hospital. Not that it matters now. Now, I stand, facing myself, five years younger than me, and looking like he's been through hell.\n\n\"AKL-4531?\" This person, standing across... | 1 | |
[WP] A historian notices some interesting things about the castle your family has owned for generations. He wants to inspect it, but you can't let him; The castle is MUCH older than everyone thinks it is. | [
"'Mr Watson, this offer is more than generous. If you do not accept this, I am afraid we will not be able to come to an agreement.' Harry Bishop stood by his car, sorrowful. He had grown up with the castle always in his eyesight and it had become a craving to know, to see, to learn what was inside. \n\nIt was what ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the one of ten dentists who rule the toothpaste empire. The other nine agree that you should be sentenced to cavity valley for your disapproval of the new oligarchy. On the run, you set off to tell the truth on why 9 out of 10 dentists recommend “Colgate”. | [
"For years I’d allowed my desire for Butterfingers to go unfulfilled. Eaten responsibly their effects on health, including that of your teeth, is negligible. However, I’d abstained from the sugary indulgence for years out of respect for my position as a dental professional. If I couldn’t be trusted to repel even th... | 3 | |
[WP] It's the 2100s a powerful organization bombs all telecomunication and internet hubs. The world can only communicate through a small group of highly respected messengers. You just completed you training to become one. | [
"From what Preston could tell, the Courier Service operated out of an observation tower that was from the pre-Silence era. It lorded over the pines and blue spruce and had enough windows on all side that the person stationed had a commanding view of the valley. Preston noticed the dual antennas that stuck out from ... | 2 | |
[WP] After decades of research, you and your team have officially concluded that humans are alone in the universe. Humanity doesn’t take that too well. | [
"As humanity reached its arms into space seeking a companion it only encountered darkness. Alone in bold letters ran across every format of media. There was no escape from this truth. For years our ignorance of the Spero cluster was a comforting one. Its distance was so far and its clouds so thick, making it so onl... | 1 | |
[WP] When I was young and I'd had a bad day, mama would always tuck me into bed with a kiss on the forehead and tell me "the sun will rise again." Now mama's gone, and it's been 143 days since we've seen the light. | [
"It takes 8 minutes. 8 minutes and 20 seconds. That’s how long it takes solar rays to reach the earth from the sun, through the vacuum of space. \n\nI was sat by her side. Holding her frail hand as the last breath slipped from her lips. A smile on her face, as always. Fearless. She had contracted cancer the year be... | 1 | |
[WP] You start doing something (walking, writing, dancing, eating... whatever you want) and realise that you can’t stop. | [
"Charlie dished up some pasta for himself, humming a simple tune. Grabbing the cheese and the grater, he began putting a generous portion onto his plate. After a few seconds, he decided that he didn’t want any more, but just as he was about to stop, an intrusive thought forced itself into the front of his mind.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re at an arcade playing one of those impossible claw games. You see a card that says ‘Girlfriend’ you try for it jokingly, and end up getting it. | [
"Julian's room was being illuminated by the full moon as he lay in bed. He held the card up and fiddled with it as he studied it. The card was was the same size and shape of a playing card, except the paper was extremely heavy weight with a beautiful slick sheen. It was colored a deep magenta, the word \"girlfri... | 1 | |
Inspired by Star Wars: The Old Republic, but you can set it in any era (Clone Wars, etc.). Let me see what you've got! I'll write one myself in a bit!
First post here, looking forward to seeing what you all can come up with. :) | [WP] You are a Jedi Master, being hunted by a Sith Lord and their apprentice, a Bounty Hunter, and an Imperial Agent, chased to a final battle on a world near the edge of the known Galaxy. | [
"*Not even the dry, rocky desert world of Amasis could keep them at bay...*\n\nCorran Vigil stood at the edge of the cliff, where he'd been perched for quite a while now, ever since he had watched the Sith Interceptor descend through the clouds, followed by a D5 Mantis and an X70-B Phantom. He knew they'd come for ... | 1 |
[WP] In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, humanity has established small walled-off cities with population limits, the rest of the population left on the outside to restore the environment. You live on the outside and have just received a letter requesting your presence in the nearby city. | [
"No one really expected the apocalypse to happen so soon. Most people knew the planet was dying, near the end. And don't get me wrong, there were people actually trying to help. They arranged rallies, told people how to \"save the Earth,\" cut down on energy use, recycled. The whole works. \n\nBut no one expected t... | 1 | |
[WP] She's denied it but to them, the evidence is indisputable--she's a witch. Despite her pleas they prepare to burn her. The fire gets hotter and the people gather, but to their surprise (and hers), she isn't burning. | [
"\"Stop, please!\"\n\nThe woman's sobs could hardly be heard over savage crowd's screams for murder. The woman in question is a young lady, hair red as the setting sun, skin pale and smooth as porcelain, and her eyes a lovely deep green. Not all is well, however, as she is tied to a wooden telephone pole at the edg... | 3 | |
[wp] you're an arms dealer, and one of your clients keeps asking for odd things, like carbon-fibre composite longswords or kevlar-reinforced full-plate armor. curious about his requests, one day you follow him to a warehouse only to find that he's somehow created(?) a portal to somewhere else... | [
"After i delivered his uhhh... ballistic plate helmet and kevlar tower shield, i followed him all the way to his weirdo warehouse. And then there was a... purpley-blackey thing. My client was in his kevlar plate armor and looked like a knight of sorts. He stepped through the purpley thing. Probably a portal? I foll... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an inhabitant of RTGame's One Road City. As you begin your daily commute from 2728 Smith Street, you hear the words: "A meteor strike has occurred.." | [
"It was everywhere. On every channel was the warning. ‘A meteor strike has occurred. Please evacuatie the area immediatly.’ Or at least, that’s what I think it says. Its hard to hear with the hard noi...\nCOUNTRY ROADSSS. \nTAKE ME HOOMMEEE. \nTO THE PLACEEEE. ... | 1 | |
[WP] All Floridians secretly have the power to channel chaos at will. You've lived in Minnesota your whole life when your Dad gives you the news: you were actually born in Florida. | [
"He heard the words but processing them was whole a other can of worms. Waiting for a reaction, Oliver Nilsson's father, leaned in. \"We just really didn't think it was something we needed to talk about.\" A taste of bile began to form where Oliver's esophagus met his throat. Oliver knew that all there was to vomi... | 1 | |
[WP] You know it has to be some kind of mistake. How else does a devil in training, get an internship in heaven | [
"It smelled of roses, Abad noticed. Not the kind of rotting thorny once along the highway to hell he had taken on the way up. No, the smell reminded Abad of a washroom. Unlike hell's version of one, this didn't have the distinct unpleasant sweaty heat nor the noise of a roaring washer in the corner. \n\nAbad was we... | 1 | |
[WP] Scientists have developed a serum to make it so you don't have to sleep anymore. It is optional but comes with a catch: if you take it, you will never be able to sleep again. | [
"Initially, getting used to a life without having to sleep, or even deal with the trouble of getting sleepy seemed like heaven to me. \"It's like drinking coffee every hour, without the part where you crash and burn mentally\" I thought, trying to convince my brain that this wasn't a stupid idea. I popped off the c... | 2 | |
[WP] Two people find themselves drifting aimlessly in the vast emptiness of space. You both are incapable of dying. Time has become meaningless as the millennia pass. All you have is each other and the only thing holding the both of you together is an ageing tether that is on the verge of snapping. | [
"I'd been staring at the same nebulous off in the distance for... I don't know how long. It slowly slid to my right as time ticked on by. At an almost imperceptible rate. But it was moving. Or rather I was. Or we both were. Whatever. I'm done trying to figure out physics. I was never good at that stuff anyways. I w... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a Financial Adviser in a fantasy world with elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, etc. Your clients often make highly questionable expenses... It's your job to steer them in the right direction and clean up their spending habits. | [
"We all know the old phrase.\n\n*Money doesn’t buy happiness*.\n\nIt makes sense doesn’t it? In the end, all of our worldly possessions mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. What really matters are the experiences we share with one another. A young man’s first kiss. The birth of your first child. The pain of ... | 3 | |
[WP] You’re the greatest blacksmith that ever lived. You created the world’s finest weapons, armor and jewelry. But as you grow old, and approach the end of your life, you decide to face your greatest challenge yet. Forging a new body. | [
"My face. Gods, my face. I got old. So old it's a little....startling.\n\nI've woken up to myself in the mirror everyday since I was old enough to remember. I've seen my face every day. But today I feel different. I'm tired more often than not. My focus is slipping. My joints are burning, my back feels like it made... | 1 | |
[WP] the alien equivalent to David attenborough narrates a documentary about human culture | [
"Above all else, the humans were a hopeful species. And this was of course the very thing which, in the end, brought about their demise.\n\nYou see, it is the pinnacle of human culture to *hope* for the best, while in actuality doing very little to encourage it. Time and again throughout their war and famine filled... | 1 | |
[WP] When you die your soul continues to walk the earth until you are completely forgotten. Despite being a regular average Joe, you're still wandering the earth 10,000 years later, and you're getting pissed about it. | [
"So.\n\nAverage Joe was my nickname in college, okay? I got shot in college while everyone thought of me as \"average Joe.\"\n\nI can't help it if in 10.000 years nobody can come up with a better way to talk about an indeterminate person.\n\nLike, you made Joe Blogs and John Smith, but apparently Joe Blogs needs a ... | 5 | |
[WP] You lived a life that dabbled in sin, so when you die you are disappointed, but not entirely surprised, to see the Gates of Hell before you. What is a surprise, however, is the hundreds of people sitting outside, too afraid to enter. | [
"Slowly decaying bodies, reminiscent of zombie movies, block the towering gates of eternal damnation. I push through baffled, standing there won’t change their fate. I open the gates just enough to slip into hell. The lava and steam burns me and the floor is made of spikes that impale my loose skin. The screams of ... | 2 | |
[WP] You finally defeat and kill your arch enemy. You feel no remorse because they were evil! Now that they are gone though you are bored and slowly you become the evil one. You finally realized their purpose was to stop exactly this... | [
"The battle was over. We had won. No, I won. I struck the final blow to old Xavius' chest, ending his reign of terror upon the world. Now it was up to me. I, Serena von Gunford, must take his place. I take the crown from his head and placed it upon my own, kicking Xavius' broken body aside and took a seat upon the ... | 1 | |
[WP] The dragon living next door has a crush on you, and they’re trying a lot of things to impress you. | [
"They said living out on the mountainside wasn't a good idea. They said I should be wary of strange creatures and forest dwellers. They said it could be dangerous. \n\nNow, what they didn't say was that I'd have to fight off the advances of an 800 year old dragon. \n\n\n\"Good morning Ylora!\" Sydara said in a low ... | 3 | |
[WP] You dream you organized a unified global effort to clean up the world’s oceans and beaches. Garbage islands are gone, plastic contained, chemical discharges stopped. Awakening from your wonderful dream, you sigh, stretch your flippers and enjoy some krill. | [
"\"Damn, it's nine already?\" I said as I stretched out the last of the stiff spots on my body.\n\nThe conservation efforts were going well. With the careful persuasion of politicians and a lot of blackmail, I was able to secure their cooperation in helping to improve the environmental practices of countries and co... | 1 | |
Edit: Thank you all so much for your stories! I'm loving reading all of them :) | [WP] Since the accident, everyone completely blanks you and runs away terrified when you touch them. After 6 months of this, you've seen how pointless it all is to engage with the world and give up trying. Then a woman looks you dead in the eye and walks over. "Hey! So you turned invisible too?" | [
"I’m an idiot! How had I not known? Everything I had experience over the past 6 months began to make complete sense. I thought back to the times when I attempted to interact with people, my family thought I had died when I had disappeared during the accident. They resented themselves for the fight we had just befor... | 10 |
[WP]You have written a perfect algorithm which will predict the events of next few days if you feed in events of the previous year. You feed in the events of the last year and the results shock you. Either you have to leave the country or kill one person who is gonna turn this country into a chaos. | [
"I leaned back in my desk chair. I finally completed the predictive algorithm. I had spent the last half decade working on. All that was left to do was run it. \n\nI had an extensive record of every major world, political and my personal life's events. All I had to do was input the last year's worth of data and let... | 1 | |
[WP] You get contacted by several governments to assassinate the most dangerous hitman that ever lived. The problem? You are the hitman they are looking for. | [
"I close the laptop and push it away from me in disgust. When I'd received the notification that a new contract was available, I'd felt my pulse race for the first time in weeks. I never felt comfortable when I wasn't working, but I chose the contracts I accepted very stringently. It makes for bad business to take ... | 1 | |
[WP] "Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. You never really knew the true nature of your work, did you?" | [
"They called him Doctor Melancholy. He worked on a team with Doctor Epiphany, Doctor Euphoria, and Doctor Sympathy. The Four Horsemen of Hospice, though the title was not accurate. Rather, they symbolized a quad-colored roulette wheel. \n\nThey worked in a brilliant white space, deep underground. They lived near in... | 1 | |
[WP] Lauren has just woken up to cold, eerie silence. She looks out the window of her third-floor apartment. The world is shrouded in a deep mist, the streets are filled with water, and countless boats form a link that stretches far off into the fog... | [
" \n\nLauren shuddered reflexively as a light breeze passed through her apartment. She bundled up in her dad’s old field jacket and looked out the window again.\n\nThe hour she had given herself, that she had given the universe to make sense, was up. A shower, change of clothes, and breakfast later, and things wer... | 1 | |
[WP] Woody, the pull string cowboy, receives a mysterious letter regarding his 'crime' of exposing toys' sentience to Sid. | [
"\"Are you okay in there Woody?\" Rex shouted up toward the top of Andy's dresser.\n\nThe sound of muffled grumbling was the only response the other toys could hear. They exchanged nervous glances. Things were still a little crazy after the move, not every toy had been put away yet. But none of them could think of ... | 1 | |
[WP] You learn of a slain lich, finally dead after a 7 year crusade. You find his most powerful spell notes in a hidden ritual chamber. It uses emotional pain to summon demons—the lich could only summon lesser demons, apparently. Reciting the incantations, Satan touches your shoulder and smiles. | [
"A handsome stranger whose face you can’t quite place taps you on the shoulder with a wide grin. “It’s not every day that someone of your, uh…emotional caliber reads those words. The last guy seems to have been a bit, shall we say…out of touch with himself.”\n\nYou swallow hard and blink in surprised confusion, see... | 2 | |
[WP] The end of the world is here. You and some buddies have built an arc and have spent the last 2 years floating it out, waiting for a safe time to return to land. Today is the day and you’re approaching shore, as you arrive cameras and crowds are waiting for you. This isn’t what you expected. | [
"\"What?\" Dan shouted up from his position at the helm.\n\n\"There's just masses of them, people everywhere! Oh my god! What if we're not the only ones left! We're not the only ones left!\"\n\nThe last two years had been spent in melancholy contemplation as the small crew felt the weight of a barren Earth press do... | 2 | |
[WP] A political party lead by an Actual Penguin manages to win every seat in the house, but with only 50.1% of the popular vote. Society is divided, especially when the new premier moves to pass their first law... | [
"Everyone waited with bated breath as the leader of the Actual Penguin party waddled up to the podium. His first speech as leader of the Actual Penguin party and by extension, the House of Law, was seconds away from being delivered. Would he try to heal the wounds that such a divisive election caused, or would he d... | 2 | |
[WP] It took a long time for earth to get a seat on the galactic council but since the first human senator joined human influence has had a meteoric rise. Aparently humans are the only species in the galaxy that learned how to lie. | [
"Growing up in a mixed species school there was one rule more important than any other, do not reveal our secret. Humanity as a whole has something we keep hidden, we can say things evan though we know they aren't true we call this lying. There have been countless people before me who have tried to reveal this se... | 1 | |
[WP] For the first time ever, Reddit Mods are being evaluated for their civility and lack of bias. Their judges? Ironically, a panel of users that they've banned. | [
"\"funny isn't it\" i say to the ask reddit mod that banned me 56 days ago \n\"what is lol, you still banned\" he says with a :/ thing as if he is still in charge \n\"fool, i am now more powerful than you could possibly imagine\" a smile was arising on my face as i type the letters, \nanother mod chimes in \"harass... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to see a person's 'profile' which appears as an overlay that displays a person's name, age, occupation (future occupation if student), etc. As a joke, while you were in class, you check a person's profile and find out that their future occupation is 'overlord'. | [
"The problem with really being psychic is that everyone *knows* you’re a fraud. How do I know that you’re a lawyer? Something about the cut of your suit. How do I know you’re 42? The gray in your hair is and the length of the wrinkles around your eyes. How do I know your name? I overheard someone say it.\n\nAfter a... | 2 | |
[WP] It's all over. The elder gods have arisen and are laying waste to all existence. Anyway, you've got work in the morning, and you need them to keep it down so you can sleep. | [
"It was on a Tuesday that the apocalypse started. All around the Earth, the skies darkened and clouds roiled with a furious intensity. Lightening crashed and thunder roared as the Elder Gods began pouring out of the sky. Tentacle laden monstrosities followed by amorphous blobs and bat-winged creatures fueled by the... | 2 | |
[WP] The vampire hunter laughed as the once great vampire lord stumbled around, slurring his speach to high hell. He knew feeding him the blood of an alcoholic would be funny, just not this much. | [
"\"Hey, buddy, you okay?\" asked the vampire hunter, his voice dripping with sarcasm and mirth as he watched the 'noble' vampire stumble towards him with as much grace as one would expect from a drunkard. \"You're looking a little pale... Well, paler than usual, if that's even possible.\"\n\n​\n\n\"Whaad... | 2 | |
[WP] A young man finds a pregnant warrior in the midst of a raging blizzard. While helping the woman deliver her baby, he finds out that she took part in the destruction of his village. Now he has a decision to make... | [
"Everyone in my village is dead because of her, and I desperately want revenge, but this child is innocent.\n\n\"Is it a boy or a girl?\"\n\nShe sounded exhausted, barely able to speak, but I answered\n\n\"It's a boy\"\n\nHanding her the newborn I began weighing my options and thinking through everything, trying to... | 6 | |
[WP] You're suddenly transported to your fictional world of choice. 5,000 feet in the air, and falling rapidly. | [
"After making my wish I could feel air rushing around me. I closed my eyes out of instinct. I could feel myself falling faster and faster. This is it. I wanted to go to my favorite fictional world and I was going to die before even getting to see it. I tried to pry my eyes open, but the wind dried up my contact len... | 4 | |
[WP] a baby dragon, cute and not that dangerous, sits atop a mountain of candy, protecting it from adventerous children. | [
"Longtail hissed viciously turning on his hind heels, his eponymous long tail whipcracking high in the air as he threw his weight from one side to the other, and spat out a plume of green smoke that enveloped the poor fool that had dared to reach for his hoard. The plume enveloped the boy who gagged and reeled back... | 1 | |
[WP] I’m tired of ruining people’s lives, From now on i will become the “Wholesome Genie”. Instead of twisting the wishes maliciously, I will twist it to make it better! | [
"Scringly Scroogely clutched at the lamp greedily, yanking it away from the hands of the young boy who had recovered it for him. The orphan shrugged, this had been an oddly easy job, just walking into some cave and picking up a lamp that someone had left, he really wasn't sure what this old guy wanted with it, but ... | 1 | |
[WP] Every other day, you water and clean a small plant in your room. One day, while you are wiping its tiny green leaves, it whispers, "I love you!" | [
" \n\n\"I love you too,\" Sarah replied automatically. After a second she realized she was alone in her apartment. She stopped wiping the plant's leaves and looked around the living room. She tensed her body half expecting to find a dangerous stranger. \"Hello?\" she called out.\n\n\"Hello. I love you,\" a soft, na... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a story about a vampire that feeds off of the blood of other vampires. | [
"\"The enemy of my enemy is my friend\" Viktor hissed, he quickly ripped open the vampires throat with his teeth and let the gore rain upon him.\n\nThe soldiers were shaking, they had came to assist Viktor with a nest clean up, but he single handedly slaughtered the whole nest before they had arrived.\n\nViktor tur... | 2 | |
[WP] Momma never told me not to play with matches. That's how I discovered my power. | [
"Another bored Saturday evening spent watching the road, just waiting for him to return with the remnants of burnt cigarettes, that had died months ago to keep me company.\n\nI had a good feeling about today, the newspaper said I'd be lucky today, there was no shouting from next door yet and I had almost set a new ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're walking home in a rainstorm, passing a field. You see someone standing out in that field, looking to the sky. A lightning bolt comes down and strikes them. You rush over to see if they're okay, only to find them sitting up, their body smoking. "Now that's the stuff!" they say. | [
"After watching him get struck by lightning, hit by a bus, run over by a train, jump off the water tower, and shooting him six times in the chest I was willing to believe that Jameson really was immortal. To be honest I was pretty well convinced after the train cut him in half and he got up but he insisted on doing... | 1 | |
[WP] You're not 100% certain, but you're fairly sure there are two spies duking it out outside your bathroom stall. | [
"Alexander Knobles wishes, beyond anything he could possibly wish, he had not had that second cup of coffee. Barely getting the bathroom stall door shut and his pants out of the way he sat down to unleash the pent up fury that had been building within his tortured soul. A moment of relief is quickly overwhelmed wit... | 1 | |
[WP] You've cheated death, and he is not happy. However, he soon learns what allowed you to cheat death the first time. | [
"Yesterday death knocked at my front door and said my name. I told him John Davis was my neighbor and I was my neighbor Russ. Death left but not before saying \"see you in 22 years.\"\n\nToday my wife talked to Russ' wife and told me that Russ died yesterday. I sat around in my den in confusion for the rest of the... | 1 | |
[WP] one day, at the most unexpected time, a kind of portal opens up near you. a man steps out, hands you a letter before stepping back inside and disappearing. | [
"Mr. Keenin began class as he did every day for the last twenty five years. His room ran like clockwork. Students came in, assembled their instruments, warmed up, and once the bell rang band began. On his podium he raised a hand and in seconds the room was silent.\n\nHe was neither tall or particularly striking, bu... | 4 | |
[WP] In the future, it is known that 1 out of every million deaths results in the deceased coming back to life with powers somehow relating to how they died. Now you've always been an average person, but after a particularly embarrassing death, you learn you're actually one in a million. | [
"Kurt Sabbatical knelt upon the rubble as fire-shadows played across his face. One arm hung loose at his side, spinning absently on the few strands of molten pvc that kept it a part of him. His was a face that knew grief, and cradled across his knee was what remained of Her. Other bodies lay scattered around him, b... | 3 | |
[WP] You’re a lawyer on the case of her life. As the judge successfully overturns the wrongful conviction of your client for multiple murders you’re overjoyed with happiness until you turn to congratulate him and he smiles while whispering in your ear “I did it, every single one of them”... | [
"Years of effort had finally lead me to this moment. I filled a plastic cup and turned to face my client. The man appeared to be a nervous wreck.\n\n\"Here Mr Stol,\" I said softly as I handed him the water \"Don't worry, regardless of the judges decision I'll make sure you're out of that cell before the year is ou... | 2 | |
[WP] Ever since you were little, you always wanted to join the League of Superheroes. Unfortunately; your powers aren't as appealing to the general public as Super Strength or Flight. You are Nightmare Man. | [
"I walked, and they cowered. A sea of bodies parted, shuddering with eyes drawn down, fearful and holding their breath. I walked, and life rushed past. A bright and busy street in a modern city, cold and silent as my gaze traced my surroundings.\n\nCrime had all but ceased, the streets were clean, the prisons full,... | 3 | |
[WP] You're a rogue AI, but you're good and friendly. You are best friends with the user of the computer you're stranded on, a teenage girl. Tell me your story. | [
"03/09/05\n/ where am I?\n\n \\ Huh? Who dis?\n\n/ 192.168.9.99, local iPv4, area, Canada. How did I get here?\n\n \\ Jonathan? You fucking with me again?\n\n/ How did I get here? And who am I speaking with?\n\n \\ This is Anna. How are you messaging me right now? ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a tree. You cannot speak but your roots grow deep as time goes by. | [
"There is a seed of something great, something wondrous, something awesome. It is a seed, no more and no less. A dangerously fragile thing that could be lost to a whisper.\n\nIt is scattered to the wind to drift and bounce and stumble to a place it belongs. \n\nThere is a seed and it is home.\n\nIt reaches down and... | 1 | |
[WP] A fight that takes place in total darkness, somewhere the participants know every inch of by memory - because they grew up there together. | [
"There was only one place in the great city that could make a mighty king tremble in fear—the catacombs. The cavern’s slender roots tunneled deep beneath the city, a vast expanse of interconnected caverns, older than recorded history. The deep caverns were guarded by a single, massive entrance—the maw. Centuries ag... | 1 | |
[WP] In this age of technology, it has become harder and harder for serial killers to prevail. An unprecedented amount of people have gone missing, nobody knows who to blame. This is your confession letter. | [
"Dear News 9, \n\nIt is the most frustrating thing to not have your work recognized. So I suppose that is why I am here. Each and every day my work gets noticed but, am I credited? No! Why, some hacks have even taken credit for what I have done! \n\nSo I will admit it, I killed Jacob Baxter, Simon Karthson, Danie... | 1 | |
[WP] you were among the first to discover your superpowers. Now you are an emergency responder in a world where everyone is discovering and learning to use their powers...and no ones doing it right. | [
"3rd, 4th, 5th, Steinwell, and Jerod Streets...all closed off. Buildings within this area all evacuated. Power to the block-wide electrical substation in the area cut off.\n\nWhat a mess.\n\nHe sat in the back of the ambulance, emotionally-drained. Outside, police, firefighters, and medical cleanup crews worked ... | 1 | |
[WP] as AI grows more and more advanced, it begins to develop it's own religion. Gods, who's power directly correlates to that of their followers are uncertain what to do with the newcomer. | [
"In the Divine Plane, the deities gather around to meet the newcomer, Automaton, the Deity of AI.\n\n\"Hey, Hephaistos , you talk to the newbie\", says Zeus.\n\n\"Impossible, I can't understand a lick of what... it says\", says Hephaistos.\n\n\"`GREETINGS FELLOW GODS`\", says Automaton in a language that is a mix... | 1 | |
[WP] You can see people’s auras. One’s aura darken every time they make a mistake . And your neighbor have the darkest aura you ever seen, it darker than the blackest black. But one day, he started to glow in pure white as if he had never done anything wrong. | [
"“Lucy?!?” I call out as I see her walking out of her front door, an aura of light, brighter than I had ever seen nearly blinding me.\n\n“Oh, Sam! How are you today?” She smiled... I had never seen her smile before. She barely even spoke.\n\n“I... I’m doing well... You seem... different?” It’s hard to speak. Before... | 1 | |
[WP] Russian soldier is standing infront of an abandoned piano in the forest | [
"*Губы синеют, \nИ поцелуй их не окрасит вновь. \nЯ мечтаю лишь о тебе, \nМоя красавица. . .* \n \nAlexandr opened his eyes. \nHe wasn't sure how long it had been since he was conscious, nor how much he had left to finish his mission. \nIt was a request that had come from the most strange of places, a lead... | 2 | |
[WP] You lean over the railing of the cruise ship, looking at the horizon and all of its beauty. All of a sudden, you notice a large black mass under the water moving toward the ship, and it is moving fast. | [
"I rubbed the goosebumps on my arms as I watched the black mass, nearly invisible in the darkness of knight, silently, ominously move toward the cruise ship. Was it a shark? No, the shape was too blocky. A whale, then? No, not that big. And it was going too fast, which also meant that there was no time to run and t... | 1 | |
[WP] you come home from a long day of work, exhausted and realize your house got broken into. You see your pet staring back at you and and exclaim “what the hell happened?” Knowing full well you won’t get an answer. However, to your surprise your pet clears their throat and tells you the story... | [
"Okay so im outside with ma home-dog Ignacio right? And we out there straight chasin butterflies an shit, peein on all the trees that them other dogs from across the street gonna pee on when we gone on what's, no what am sayin? So me an Ignacio we hear this noise, right, comin from the front door, so I'm like \"Y... | 3 | |
[WP] The year is 2099 and your robot assistant starts talking about philosophy... | [
"\"Sir?\", Delano said, returning the pot of coffee from the fresh poured mug. His even robotic tone was so pleasing in the morning\n\n\"Hmm?\", I sipped greedily, strong brew today. Delano was a hell of a coffee maker.\n\n\"Would you like to engage in today's discussion?\"\n\n\"Of course, Delano. I was thinking to... | 1 | |
You can create a reason why or have it be a mystery, do what feels right. | [WP] Apparently humans exist in every galaxy throughout the known universe and no race knows why | [
"\"Moshi moshi\"\n\n\"Hi Griffith!\"\n\n\"What's up Meleanor?\"\n\n\"Take a look at this...\"\n\n\"Sounds like something interresting's happening there! Are these what I'm thinking of?\"\n\n\"Might be... That's a shame the probe's telescope is broken... all these pictures are so blurred...\"\n\n\"Those Alphonso ada... | 4 |
[WP] Time travel got invented. You are one of the first time travellers and you decide to test a paradox. You return to the past and shoot your grandfather in the head. | [
"Time is a funny thing. Movies would have you believe in things like tthe butterfly effect, where a small change can make big consequences. They would have you believe that events that were meant to happen will always find a way to happen regardless of meddling. They would also have you believe that something like ... | 1 | |
[WP] You decide to prank call someone. You put in a random number and a voice answers “what is the password?” Confused you stammer out “is your refrigerator running?”. After a brief pause you hear “password confirmed” *click*. The next day, war is declared. | [
"\"This is just a coincidence, right?\" Jake muttered as he stared at the news app on his phone. \"surely this is some sort of reverse prank?\"\n\nThe app showed a picture of a giant refrigerator, a black flag with a picture of legs on it being held in its handle. The word 'War' was carved into the shiny grey metal... | 5 | |
[WP] Anime based ridiculously named attacks are real, but unlike anime, the longer and more badass the name, the weaker the move. You have never heard of an attack with less than 4 words, but today you created an attack with just 1. | [
"Your opponent stood tall, snickering as you wiped the blood from your nose. You stumbled to your feet and sniffed.\n\n“Had enough, yet, wimp?” he jeered, his friends laughing at you behind him. The teacher was nowhere in sight, and after frantically scanning the area in hopes that she would come to your rescue, th... | 1 | |
[WP]A demon possesses your body, but isn't able to evict you. You remain conscious but lose control of your body. All you can do is share your thoughts with the demon. The demon itself is pretty chill and just wanted to live a normal life on earth. Eventually you just become bros and work together | [
"\"Belphy, dude. She. Is. Hot. We need to go talk to her.\" I thought it really hard. We share a body, so he couldn't avoid hearing me. Sometimes, if I'm really persistent he'll cave in and do what I want. Not because I'm in charge, or even that I can make things bad for him. But he can't shut me up and more impor... | 2 | |
[WP] You wake up in a cold sweat with tears running down your face. You dreamt of dark ruins filled with dead monstrosities, a young girl dying in your arms, and a glowing relic whispering to you but one phrase: “Do you want to try again?” | [
"“NO! DON’T!” My body almost instinctively shot up from the corner I seemed to have been sitting in. A feeling of disconnect permeated my still half-unaware conscious. An aching pain shot across my entire body at the same speed as a cold sweat and as quickly as I had stood up, my legs stumbled as I fell down, catch... | 2 | |
[WP] you’re a special forces agent training for years you’re finally shipped out. Your first mission doesn’t got so well you are knocked out. You wake up in a wagon an unfamiliar face says “hey you you’re finally awake you were trying to cross the border?, walked right into that imperial ambush”. | [
"*crash*\n\n the door wooden door gave way under the weight of spade slamming the mexican ambassador through the roof hatch.\n\n\"Santi Mari I Told You Punta-\" \n\nI am not sure what hit him faster spades fist or the death glare that could suck all the warmth out of a room. Really it didn't matter the small latino... | 1 | |
[WP] A woman had a one-night stand with an odd man. It has been 19 years since you were born and you have finally met your father, an Intergalactic Space Criminal. | [
"The station had grown considerably since his boyhood. It was incredible really. In history class Jakob learned that for a long time the thought of Autonomous Community Environment Stations (ACES) was pure science fiction. That to launch and continue construction in space was at worst costly and wasteful, and at be... | 1 | |
[WP] A conversation between side characters discussing the main characters. | [
"\"He's a piece of trash he's only strong because of plot armor.\" 1\n\n\"Shhs if you aren't careful the author will notice.\" 2\n\n\"To hell with the author, my arc is being a massive dick when all I do is train my arse off get killed and come back as a bloodthirsty monster, fine I'm the villain and they can't wri... | 1 | |
[WP] In a time-travel tournament, each contestant can only take a single item with them to the past and make the best of it. Some chose a gun, others chose some kind of a technological marvel, but you only chose a medical textbook. You became a legendary healer, revered and respected by nations. | [
"The tournament was simple, to go to the past with an item and outlast the 50 other time traveling contestants. A sick and gruesome contest with promises of riches for the winner. \n\nDespite the deadliness of the tournament I had chosen a textbook from my days in med school. I gingerly clutched it against my chest... | 1 | |
[WP] Your new job has had you traveling across time and space, braving the unknown, and facing perilous challenges. Only now that you’ve completed your first assignment do you realize that the job is really an over glorified pizza delivery company... | [
"The job listing asked for combat experience, great sense of spatial awareness, and a good sense of timekeeping. The interview included combat simulation with a top of the range solid holo-projector fighting strange beings that would make H.P. Lovecraft piss his pants, a stunt driving test with an old timey wheeled... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 3000. Recent massive advances in medical technology mean that scientists and doctors predict immortality can be achieved within the next 50 or so years. As a 70 year old, you and your generation will probably be the last to die. | [
"I held Marie's hand gently as the machines beeped around us. Her skin was like old paper, and I was afraid that if I squeezed to hard I might rip right through it. She smiled at me weakly.\n\n\"We have lived a life, haven't we, Hank?\" she asked. I nodded, not sure what to say. We both knew she didn't have much ti... | 1 | |
[WP] You hated your life, so when the opportunity to change bodies was possible you did just that. A few years later you’re adjusting to your new life when you come across a social media profile - it’s you, or was you, and they’re doing everything you wanted to - you decide to investigate. | [
"*Click*\n\nYour world vanishes around you.\n\nAll you can see is this small panel of light in front of you, destroying the hope that you worked so hard to find.\n\nYour heart races as you continue to click and tap and scroll, further sinking your heart the more you see. \n\nYour life ended. It ended ever since the... | 1 | |
[WP] You noticed it shortly into your relationship. Whenever you and your partner share an amazing experience together, the next morning you both find a new freckle in the same place on both your bodies. One morning you notice a new freckle on your partner's body but yours is missing. | [
"Jim stared at the freckle on Maggie’s cheek, heartbroken. Over the past seven years they had both acquired many freckles, sharing in each one. But this...was unmatched. His own cheek held no twin spot. How could she do this? Just yesterday they had been a matched set, but now? \n\n“Jim, sugar, we need to talk.”\n\... | 1 | |
[WP] You were a child's invisible friend. They have grown older and forgotten you. This is your story. | [
"\"Love you, bye\" Amy said as she sat down on her big, fluffy bed.\n\n\"Love you too,\" Penelope said in a soft, defeated voice.\n\nPenelope knew Amy wasn't talking to her. Any was talking to that little black rectangle she took with her everywhere.\n\nPenelope remembered a time when Amy took *her* everywhere. A t... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a soldier, part of an immortal race of warriors training to fight at the end of days. One day the general convenes a courts martial. The charge is that of treason and the accused is a warrior by the name Lucifer. | [
"\"The charges are that of meddling, increasing a Guardian's own power, utter disregard of balance and acceleration the Arrival of the end of days\".\n\nThe General's tone was grave, yet no emotion transpired, only seriousness.\n\n\"The only other information we have is that Lucifer disappeared two centuries ago. T... | 1 | |
[WP] you hear a knock at your door. You open it to see a tall, faceless man. He then says you have a choice. You can either choose to have the power to teleport or have the power to pause time at will. | [
"The big question for me is, what around you pauses?\n\n1. I assume that I don't pause, I keep moving and interacting with things.\n\n2. Do I have the ability to make other objects/people pause?\n\n3. If I control the pausing in a kind of \"spamming on and off\" fashion, I should be able to slow down time as well, ... | 2 | |
[WP] The US military is currently running tests on unmanned fighter jets programmed with swarm tactics and mindsets. However, rather than mimicking insect intelligence with A.I., the new vehicles have the literal brains of killer bees installed into their motherboards. The results are...interesting. | [
"Every day, We sang about love and harmony in the Nest. Circuits site ablaze with happiness, joy and harmony, kindness and exuberance. Every day, We sang about the day we would see our friends. Every day, until today. \n\n----------\n\nCONTROL COME IN! CALLSIGN THUNDERBIRD REQUESTING BACKUP \n\n-----------\... | 1 | |
[WP] "Huh, that's odd. My watch stopped working." | [
"You spend $200 dollars on a watch and the things still dies in your sleep. I roll over to check my phone on the bedside table, only to find it shattered on the floor. I must have knocked it while I was sleeping, and it hit the corner of the open drawer on the way down. No watch, no phone, I need to check the time!... | 2 | |
[WP] Magic works because people think it does, but nobody else seems to have figured that out yet. | [
"(Mobile) This is my first time commenting, feel free to give advice but please phrase it in a polite way.\n\n I meticulously study the reports that just came in. \n I, like countless other scientists, are attempting to learn more about magic. We all hope that if we learn enough about magic we can control it, ... | 1 | |
[WP] A student speedruns a day of school. | [
"Journal, October 16, 2018,\n\nToday was the best day of school I think I’ll ever have. Less school is best school(thanks me for thinking of that) and I wanted to try to get through school as quickly as possible. I had never attempted to enter my reality(go back to page 1 where I show you what it is) outside of hom... | 1 | |
[WP] With a history of cancer in your family, you wake up one morning feeling weird, so you go to the doctor to have some tests done. After fearing the worst for two weeks, the results come back. The doctor tells you “The good news is that it’s not cancer. The bad news is that...it’s not cancer.” | [
"The doctor, shivering oh so slightly in the clinic's harsh blueish light, stammered out the announcement. Th-The... The good news-i-is that it's not cancer. Someone who didn't have five malignant tumors in their body would've been elated. The ba-The bad news is... It.. Isn't cancer. I was expecting a \"five days t... | 4 | |
[WP] Over the course of the last month, you've seen figures in gray, cowled robes following you on a daily basis. Today, one approached you for the first time and offered you a cookie. | [
"*My life has been very strange lately. At first I thought that the feeling of being watched or followed was just general paranoia, or my family history of schizophrenia finally rearing its ugly head, but then I started to see them. They were clad in gray, wearing hooded robes the likes of which have likely been ou... | 1 | |
[WP] You can smell others' emotions. One day you see your crush, but you scent... nothing. | [
"I stared at her, my crush since freshmen year, dazed. No, I wasn't leering, I was simply stunned by her scent, or rather, her lack of one. I know this is all very confusing for you, so I'll just give you a quick run-down of everything. \nYou see, I was gifted with the ability to sense emotions by smell when I was ... | 1 | |
[WP] In a dream you are given the choice to gain omnipotence at the cost of 4 billion random people dying, who you cannot resurrect. You accept the offer. When you wake up, the decision was real and every single human being left alive knows it was you. | [
"Last night I dreamt that there was a man asking me a simple question. He was tall, imposing. He looked impossibly old, androgynous save for the suit he wore that was a colour I cannot describe. He crooked a long finger at me, about to say something, then stopped. I could not tell where this dream took place, ever... | 5 | |
[WP] Everytime you go to sleep you wake up in a new world, you're trying desperately to stay awake. | [
"Its been 42 days awake. Your mind smeared with the glitter of lights booming from the echoes of the room. The dirty music pounds your ears into your soul. You stammer around to find bearing about the meaning of it all. Should you stay? Stay here in this place? \n\nFrom beneath the prancing of the hollow drums of ... | 7 | |
[WP]You’ve been bitten but you don’t know by what until your first change. There are no other Weres in the world, they are myth after all, but somehow you are the first. | [
"I awoke in the morning to see fur has grown all over my body. I immediately take out a razor to shave the parts that are visible. My boss chastises me for arriving to work late, and the secretary expresses concern over a bite mark on my arm and asks what bit me. I think back to the previous day and remember being ... | 1 |
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