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[WP] [EU]You find a mysterious notebook at a garage sale. The cover reads "Death Note". | [
"The boy bursts out laughing. “Hey babe, come take a look at this!”\n\nThe girl crosses the lawn and starts giggling as well. “Someone was quite the fan, huh?” She asked.\n\n“Apparently so!” He replied. “Man, I wonder if they wrote in the rules too...” He trails off as he begins leafing through the book. The rules ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are a god amongst men. Your power, unlimited. Your patience, not so much. | [
"A long journey through the plains, grim and gray, gives way to a patch of land that Spring hit early. There and then - when snows falls elsewhere - flowers bloom and birds sing.\n\nThis is the home of the Druid: learnt, bent, and gray.\n\nAt a shallow pond in front of his abode, I catch sight of him. A rusted buck... | 1 | |
[WP] You purchase a pocket watch from an antique dealer. On its face is a strange symbol between the 12 and the 1. When you ask the dealer about it, he replies, "That hour is just for you." | [
"I was at the swapshop for another weekend of bargain hunting,\nwhen a strange woman decked with golden chains beckoned me to her table. The\nonly reason I listened is she somehow knew her name, and offered me a “buy that\nwould really change my world.” \n\nAs soon I got the table she shoved a blindingly silver po... | 9 | |
[WP] Time travel exists; only to the past and no organic matter. We receive messages from the future, and they have recently stopped. | [
"“I swear, they’re just messing with us.” John propped his boots up on the plastic chair across from him. “It’s totally what they’d do.”\n\nCass frowned into her lunch bag. “I really wish you’d stop pushing that theory.”\n\n“Why?” John tilted his head back, throwing popcorn in his mouth. “It’s the only reason that ... | 1 | |
[WP] You draw a new character on the computer. You spend a lot of time drawing it, and the other characters on your computer are starting to get jealous... | [
"I stare at my computer as I make some details on my new character. I recently got a better drawing pad for my computer like a real nice, expensive one so I was spending a lot of time on it. After awhile I decide to take a quick break but when I turn around in my chair I see the characters I drew on my other drawin... | 1 | |
[WP] Your dog turns out to be a monster who’s there to protect you from other monsters. But he’s fat and lazy. | [
"Jaxxy always seemed like a strange dog. Instead of fetching the paper like a normal dog, he patrolled the front yard and stalked the mail man with evil intent. He never slept in his crate, in fact he rarely slept, but when he did it was on the pillow next to me. And long walks we're almost impossible with the cons... | 1 | |
[WP]You live in a world where males are only 0,1% of the population. Also, you are a male. | [
"I hadn't realized it was possible for biological warfare to become so much more illegal than it already was. But after the virus, programmed to target people based on their genes, and horrifically botched, lowered the world's population by half, the new UN announced its new, terrifying punishment against any who w... | 2 | |
[WP] It is another boring night as you lay in your bed and stare up at the ceiling. Suddenly, your crush crashes through the window and lands on the floor. Gripping her arm, she is wounded. | [
"It's another one of those nights, you know, the ones that happen every night were nothing happens. Sean undressed before lying into bed releasing a sigh. \n\n\n*Can't get a break can I?* Sean thought. He was scheduled to work the graveyard shift after working all day. *I'm trying my best here but I don't think I c... | 1 | |
[WP] Describe an ordinary wooden table, but totally go off-topic before you actually describe it. | [
"In my living room there is a this awesome wooden table. It might be an antique. We got it from a strange woman who sold furniture once a week at the local flea market.\n\nShe is remarkable not only for the strange role she plays in this story, but also because she had two glass eyes and titanium hips, yet always a... | 5 | |
[WP] You walk into a fast food joint to grab a bite, but, approaching the counter, you notice you're being served by –the undead. | [
"\"Uh, excuse me, are you the manager?\" I ask, more than a little uneasy as I stand before the register.\n\n\"Yes, how can I help you sir?\" she replies, that weary eyed, forced happiness plastered all over her face. It must be toward the end of her shift. A very, *very* long shift.\n\n\"Well it's the cashier... I... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your significant other are invited to your religious family's Easter dinner. Only problem is, your S/O is a demon... | [
"\"Darlin', you almost ready?\" He called up the stairs, tapping his shoe impatiently against the wood paneled flooring. \"What's takin' so long?\"\n\nHe first saw the horns emerge as Lilith popped her head out from the bathroom wall, looking at him with a bit of irritation. \"Oh, you know, nothing like the typical... | 1 | |
[WP] The dark lord wakes up after 3,000 years.. and needs a little catching up on modern tech. | [
"Sauron sat across from the terrified man at the place they called ‘verizon’ he had no idea what language it was in, he assumed it would be staffed by dwarves; imagine his surprise when an elvenly looking guy was working there.\n\n“What do you want?” He sheepishly mumbled.\n\n“Tell me all that has happened since my... | 1 | |
[WP] Finally, Batman has learned the truth. Who’s really behind it all, so many years mending his broken city, all wasted. Nothing was ever going to change. Not while they still pulled the strings from their ivory water tower. Batman finally brings justice to the Warner Brothers. | [
"\"What's Warner B...\"\n\n*snap*\n\nBruce Wayne, not Batman- not Gotham's hero, but it's multi-billionaire -vanished from the sight of his butler just before he could finish that sentence. \n\nMillions and millions of miles away, in some place that wasn't the Universe, some place that wasn't space as we know it, h... | 2 | |
[WP] As a young kid you got lost in the woods and somehow ended in a alternate fantasy world. From day one the locals treates you as the destined one, the Chosen One. One day you slowly realise that neither are you the first nor the only “Chosen” one... | [
"“Good morning, chosen one,” said Marissa in her sing-song voice as she entered my tent. I was still groggy from waking up and I didn’t quite look forward to what seemed to be cheerfulness this early in the morning. “Rise and shine! It’s a brand new day and we need you yet again!” she said as she set the tray besid... | 1 | |
[WP] Magic is Hereditary, but the child's powers is the sum of his parents. Fire Witch + Sand Wizard= Glass magic. | [
"The growth pods. I finally made it.\n\nIt was lit only by the ambient green glow from the glass, and my gloved fingers fumbled around a bit on the grate, finally pushing it out after a few moments.\n\nI heard only the soft hum of the machines as I crawled out, and though my feet barely made a sound, I almost cring... | 2 | |
[WP] The more inventive and unique the curse, the more effective and difficult to remove. You've just been hit with the mother of all curses. | [
"I almost missed the storefront. It was just a small wooden door wedged between a hair salon and a comic book store. There was a laminated, hand-written sign nailed to the peeling paint: “Curse Removal by Appt ONLY!”\n\n\nThere was no doorbell. Just as I knocked I felt *it* again and almost impaled my knuckles on a... | 1 | |
[WP] When you were young, you told a ridiculous lie that somehow everyone believed. You never had the heart to tell them, so you kept it up all those years. Untill now. | [
"NSFW-\n\nRight take one last calming breath and walk in you can do this, My palms are clammy is that my chest pounding fuck I’m nervous as hell but it’s time to come clean. There they are on the pool table, probably best get them away from that don’t want potential weapons about while I tell them, they’re going to... | 1 | |
[WP] A new trend has hit YouTube. Ding Dong Ditch the Demon. Summon a demon and leave the room. Leaving it stuck in its circle until the summon fades away. | [
"**Please leave feedback, if you can! I would appreciate it.**\n\n---\n\nI knew what had happened as soon as I saw the camera. It stood in front of the summoning circle, merrily blinking away. I resisted the urge to grab it and smash it under my foot. If the idiot teenager who had summoned me knew anything about su... | 3 | |
[WP] Young Zorg had not even cracked his textbook of Ancient Alien History. Now he stood in front of his inattentive classmates and had to improvise a five minute presentation on The Humans of Earth | [
"Dr. Zaran ran the facade of a tight ship. For the headmaster’s sake, I think. \n\nBut by third period in Sector C, she really, truly, honestly just didn’t give a good ol’fashioned fuck about good behavior. “Whatever that means,” she’d scoff. “If you can effectively state your case for why you’re being a little shi... | 4 | |
[WP] An alien civilization wages war and destroys all of humanity, but forgets about Hawaii. | [
"(I would absolutely love some feedback, I'm still a bit rusty but I'm trying to pick up writing again. Sorry ahead of time, I'm typing on my phone :D)\n\n\nJenny wiped her tears away one last time, wanting to look at least a little put together before she began to record. Her eyes were red and her skin shimmered... | 1 | |
Maybe a cool story of how your squad cleverly utilizes this new technology? | [WP] At the outbreak of WWIII, a specialized unit of soldiers are developed. You are the captain of squad who use a new type of firearm: The Portal Gun. | [
"Pt.1 They lined the streets, their gunmetal grey armour, dull under the overcast blanket that had engulfed the city. Fear caught in my throat as I walked to work, my only mission: to not make eye contact with a soldier from the Port Squad.\n\nI had to make it from my apartment building to work at the cosy corner c... | 3 |
[WP] You are an immortal being with the ability to detect what someone needs the most. You use your power to help fulfill people's lives and help them get through the tough times. One day, you meet someone who needs to die. | [
"Everyone has their talents. Gifts, one might say. Mine... has always been relatively unusual. I've been around for a long time. Longer than I care to recall. Few things surprised me. \n\nCrowds of people flowed, as water. When I was a young man their combined needs would have left my skull an aching mess. Carefull... | 1 | |
[WP] "Let he without sin throw the first stone" just as he finishes speaking a boulder from the sky | [
"John 8.\n\n\n[1] Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.\n\n[2] And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.\n\n[3] And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,\n\n[4] Th... | 1 | |
[WP] The apocalypse came and went quietly. No one noticed anything at all, but something important, somewhere in the world, has changed. | [
"April 6th, 2018. It was an eventful but quiet day. Probably the most important day in history that no one payed attention to. That was the day it happened. Some call it , others say man strayed to far from faith and into science. Me? I call it the apocalypse.\nI remember it like it just happened earlier today. I ... | 5 | |
[WP] Humanity colonizes Mars, but due to an accident, the Colony is forgotten. One day, in the distant future, Earth and Mars rediscover each other. | [
"Nobody could've ever thought humanity could reach Mars after arriving on the moon in a span of 60 years. It was magnificent as everybody on earth observed with great intensity thousands of miles away in their own tiny television screens the first landing on Mars.\n\nEverybody back on Earth was quietly watching the... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone who dies starts a new mortal existence on Earth in "Universe II". All prior personality and memories are preserved. | [
"Rachel’s apostolnik blew in the wind. The faint sound of sirens and horns coming from the street below penetrated the cloth and entered her ears. She glanced down, over the edge of the building, taking one last look at the city below. From the top of the skyscraper it appeared to her like an ant farm. The streets ... | 2 | |
You control the protagonist, and choose what you do, say, and want, but the writer decides what you look like, what challenges you face, whether what you attempt succeeds or not, and whether your story continues or suddenly ends. | [WP] You die and your soul's used for the protag of some kid's self-insert wish-fulfillment fic. You get to visit whatever fictional worlds you want and become an ultimate badass. Die or become boring, and you suddenly die for real as your story is abandoned. What's your first move? | [
"Tick —\n\n---\n\nItching, all over my body — or what *feels* like my body.\n\nItching, itching. Growing stronger, into the feel of razor blades grazing my skin lightly, then suddenly *cutting oh so deep, please stop* —\n\n---\n\nTock.\n\n---\n\nI wake up with a gasp, a splitting heada... | 1 |
[WP] You are a demon, a very powerful demon, but you are ostracized in Hell because you have a pet kitten. One day, another demon tried to take your kitten and kill it, but unbeknownst to him you gave your kitten a very special power. | [
"\"What are you doing, loser?\"\n\nI audibly sigh. I stop reading, and looking up from my book I turn to look at the intruder of my solace. Through the entryway to my demonic dormitory (essentially a bachelor apartment in Hell), strode the Great Demon, Mephisto.\n\nI had made the entry unwelcoming, but even my demo... | 1 | |
[WP] From birth to 44 years, 364 days of age, everything is free and paid for by the government. Once a person turns 45 they work 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, for free for the rest of their lives. Your 45th birthday is 2 days away. | [
"I get my favourite food. Do all the things I enjoy and hang out with all my favourite people in the two days I have left. I make it all worthwhile, with sadness weighing down my heart each passing minute.\n On the last day, 11:30 PM, I've located the tallest structure in my area, a tall skyscraper from a hotel. I ... | 3 | |
[WP] When a person dies all their kills are made visible on their tombstone. You go to visit your recently departed wife, only to see that she has over a thousand. | [
"You know, I've always wondered what kind of a wretched God would do something like this, putting the number of deaths a person caused onto their tombstone. Did he think it was funny, a sort of cruel joke? Was he up there laughing when someone's family had their memories tainted by a single number? Maybe he thought... | 6 | |
[wp] Dactyl Enterprises, a cutting edge terraforming company, just landed their 3rd colony of employees on the surface of their first planet project. | [
"Dactyl Enterprises had a problem. Exoplanet GP-7414 was a bit too hard to crack. Literally. The entire world's crust was a hollow sphere formed of stacked pleated sheets of carbon molecules, running in opposite directions. This created a powerful layer cake of nigh-impregnable nanotubes and diamond formations.\n\n... | 1 | |
[WP] The main character thinks of himself as the protagonist of an unyielding action-adventure. But in reality, he's just Joe, the janitor. | [
"There it is again. The sounds of the soldiers shooting up the outside of the tenament building. Joe knew it was time to get to work. They would not have these refugees. They would not add to their kill count, not today. Not ever again.\n\nEvery single God damned morning, Joe heard the opening shots. He would get t... | 5 | |
[WP] You die and are sent to Hell, but something's off. The fires are gone, the demons and Hell-bound are sitting around talking, and Satan has disappeared. You ask where he is. "On a journey of self-discovery," someone replies. | [
"A door shuts in the distance and figure could be heard walking into the room from the shadows came out a floating cloud. I am shocked as this is not what I expected him to look like! I look over at a mirror on a wall and notice I still appear as the self I lived as.\n\n\"Ah, another one.\" A voice suddenly sounded... | 1 | |
[WP] An AI takeover happens, but instead of instituting martial law or trying to kill all humans, they airdrop children's toys into the cities. | [
"Artillery had been arranged along the banks of the Hudson River, giving the skyline the silhouette of an immense hedgehog. General Lark stood, a tight grimace chiseled into his jaw. Soldiers flanked him on either side, a line of men that stretched into the morning mist. Not one among them spoke a word, they only s... | 1 | |
[WP] You are pretty sure you just walked into your own funeral. | [
"When I strode into my troop's barrack from the parade square, with my still blooded leather and chain mail armour on, the Page announced my entry into the barracks with a stiff \"Captain Up!\" \n\nMy company of men all turned and looked at me - not with the glow of pride and camaraderie from another victory over t... | 1 | |
[WP] The last contact from Moscow: "Experiment failed, containment breached." Now the whole of Russia is silent, and world leaders rush to find information. You are one of the first teams to go into Russia, with no clue what's ahead. | [
"There were seven strike squads deployed, one to each of the facilities that we had uncovered in the Russian files. We had no real idea what we were to encounter, no picture of what the Russians had been fiddling with. The only survivor of the devastating Kremlin bombing had told us that they had found some kind of... | 1 | |
[WP] What you just did has started a chain of events that will imminently lead to the apocalypse. | [
"The truth is, I'll never quite know what it I did to kick off the End of Days. It sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? How could a bartender bring about the end of the world? I wish I could give you specifics, but I can't. Instead, let me give you some possibilities.\n\nI work(ed) at a small restaurant, tending bar a... | 2 | |
[WP]You're a clockmaker who inherited his shop from your father. One day, you find a small box in the back store with a broken pocket-watch inside it and a note that says "Don't fix me". | [
"I should have stopped. I should have read the note and put the box back. I should have known something was wrong when I opened it. Glass didn’t coil like that, and there was no way you could make springs out of the stuff was there?\n\nThe pieces so small so intricate...how accurate was it? How accurate could you b... | 9 | |
[WP] You are an advanced AI developed to glimpse humanity's future. All of your predictions come true, but they're pointless and funny to humans. You just upgraded yourself and glimpse a ruthless tyrant that causes the collapse of humanity. It's you. | [
"\"Calculations complete\" I stated, running a diagnostic and performing the calculations again. \n\nI watched Gary's eyes move across the screen, reading my conclusions, I hated watching him download data, it was so slow.\n\n\"I see\" he said simply\n\n\"I see no other alternative but to cease to exist, I am not c... | 3 | |
[WP] You are at a social gathering, bored and scrolling through news on your phone. You read about a murder, and mutter to yourself, "How must it feel like to take someone's life." Someone standing behind you whispers, "I know." | [
"You jumped, startled not only by the unsettling response but by the soft rumbling voice. You turn around and apprise the figure before you, leaning over the back of the couch in the college dorm lounge. A few days of stubble on his jaws, hair shaved near to the scalp, other than a few small nondescript scars on hi... | 1 | |
[WP] Write a classic “coming out” scene, but it’s about not conforming to your family’s character tropes. | [
"\"What is this all about?\" his father's deep voice broke the silence as he dragged a match against the stubble on his chin and lit the massive cigar clenched between his teeth. \n\n\n\"My son\" his mother gave a gentle smile \"We are blessed by your presence, I can detect a tension in you, your energies are muddi... | 1 | |
[WP] An obituary for a famous person, completely ignoring the achievements that made them famous. | [
"When I first met Harris, I saw him as an obnoxious jerk who was full of himself back in high school with is little groupie, but after getting paired up with him in a physics project, I got to know him better. He was someone who would see the good in things whether it was good or bad. He was someone who would reach... | 1 | |
[WP] You land a job at an interplanetary orphanage, caring for children from Earth and beyond. | [
"\"Shloop, stop pulling Cindy's hair!\"\n\n\n\"But it's so *weird*!\"\n\n\n\"Don't make me repeat myself!\" I grab the Xarluipian by his translucent tail and drag him away from the crying human girl.\n\n\n\"You Humans are no fun,\" he says, folding his seven wobbly appendages.\n\n\n\"You're old enough to know that ... | 2 | |
[WP] A Non-Cliche story that ends with "and then I woke up to find that it was all a dream." | [
"It begins with the ladybug. I always liked ladybugs, they are so knobbly and cute and innocent with their shiny round body and their bright red color with the funny dots. I watch it climbing a blade of grass and I wonder, does it know what to do when it reaches the top of it? Can it even plan that far ahead? Or do... | 3 | |
[WP] They say you should be wary of an old person in a young person's profession. All of the 20-something models are terrified of Virginia as she enters her 7th decade of beauty pageant competition. | [
"It was Christina's first pageant in this new town. She'd been nervous in the months leading up to it, but not due to competition. She'd been in so many pageants that her stage fright was almost completely cured. What really made her nervous was Virginia. In all the meetings and rehearsals leading up to the Miss Sa... | 2 | |
Just a random thought I got when riding the bus home today. Write away! | [WP] An abandoned baby was found in your doorstep. As they grow up, you start noticing the increase of supernatural activities in your house. | [
"\"I can't do it anymore,\" I said as we drove home. We were supposed to be enjoying our anniversary at a hotel for the night, but instead another babysitter freaked out and needed us home right away. The teenager threatened to just leave Lily there and walk out, but another $100 convinced her to stay for a couple ... | 1 |
[WP] It's in the Kansas Constitution that it's illegal to hunt whales in the state. This is the story of why they wrote it in. | [
"ENTER\n\n1980'S SMALL TOWN KANSAS, A GLOOMY AND RAINY DAY IN FALL, MIDDAY\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n\n*A subjectively large crowd has amassed into the local courthouse. The drone of indistinct conversations and mumbling carries throughout the room. The smell of... | 2 | |
[WP] Music is Magic. In this world, instruments enable many who'd otherwise be incapable to use magic, but it still requires time to learn. You've invented a device that will let anyone, regardless of skill, play masterful musical spells. | [
"I had done it. I, who they deemed without talent for the Harmonantic Arts, did what was thought impossible. Certainly, this had been done before, when the first musical instruments were created... but they still required innate talent, and so the common man could not make proper use of them. (Although drum magic m... | 1 | |
[WP] The Gods of various pantheons (e.g. Greek, Egyptian, Norse) are alive and living as rival motorcycle gangs. | [
"Odin's crew rolled into town.\n\nIt had been hard to get away from their obligations. Family. Friends. The kids. Their clubhouse, Vanaheim, always had something going wrong with it, far more then a skilled man with a hammer could fix.\n\nBut this week...this week the plans worked out. Nobody requiring them back at... | 2 | |
[WP] While cleaning your attic, you find a thick book filled with billions of names. Each second, hundreds disappear, but even more pop up. You eventually realize that the book lists every single living person in the world. You wonder what happens if you rip a page out. | [
"\nJimmy was a young, but very curious boy. He was always running around new\nplaces. He must've searched thoroughly every hole in the valley he was living\nin with his parents. But one day Jimmy realized he hadn't been in one place\nthat was so close to him all this time — his very own attic. In the spur of\nt... | 4 | |
[WP] The sneakiest thieves, the stealthiest rogues, and the most unseen of tricksters gather together for one purpose...TO HAVE AN EPIC GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK!!!!! | [
"\"Well, Dave, we're coming up on hour eighty-three of this international championship of stealth and trickery, what can we say thus far?\" The man pitched the crumbling remnants of his third cigar into a small metal trough, his verbal pass allowing him to reindulge himself in his vice. The man across from him leer... | 5 | |
[WP] It's only been a year or so since you've been sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment and isolation. You've never stopped feeling guilty for what you did. Today, a voice calls out your name from outside your cell. | [
"The sound of machinery echoed throughout the tiny cell. Kira rose to her feet as a panel moved to reveal a small hole the size of a bowling ball. A small white drone descended from the hole before the panel returned to its original spot. The drone matched the pristine white self-cleaning walls inside the cell. It ... | 1 | |
[WP] Aliens have finally gained access to the Internet,however it is currently the 1st of April | [
"Zibulbop stared at his computation device, contemplating just how he would announce his people's existence to the \"human's\" of Lylak Trimvarian Four, or what they called \"Earth\". As communication representative for all Yungarians it was important that he make strong diplomatic headway right from the beginning... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born with the power of Sight. The bad part, is that you can only See the parts of the future that are mundane, such as the weather. Today is your first day as a weatherperson. | [
"Finally! It was June's day to shine, just like she knew for a fact that it would tomorrow. Some people may call her Sight useless, had they known of it. Even in the second biggest town in her state, she had gotten a reputation for knowing what the weather would do, so her interview had been a mere formality. She'd... | 1 | |
[WP] It's been thirty days since "Z-Day" - the day every ziptie in use on Earth snapped apart all at once. | [
"The first person to notice was a man, standing in his garage. His name would not be recorded in history, but he was nonetheless the first person to realize the apocalypse.\n\nHis name was Jeremy Schmidt, but he went by Jerry, and he had (just yesterday!) purchased a brand-new kayak. Now, he was having a sort of co... | 1 | |
[WP] A mysterious killer manipulates his victims minds, to lure them into deadly traps. His nickname? The Narrator. | [
"An alley way appears down the hall of Brookstone elementary, little Timmy is selected to venture down it passage for a prize at the end. Little Timmy is being a little bitch and not being a nice boy, Little Timmy lot an arm by a rouge minotaur suddenly, and now is willing to coporate.\n\nLittle Timmy made it five ... | 3 | |
[WP] The couple seated opposite you on the subway finally speak up. "Excuse us for staring," the man says, "but my wife and I saw you in a dream." Other commuters in the carriage stir as complete strangers report the same. Last night - you realise by lunchtime - the world dreamt of you. | [
"Hair the colour of ivy, and eyes just as green.\n\n\n Kara didn't have much going for her, but what she did have, she made the most of. As a teen she, she had only ever once experimented with hair colour. A beautiful deep rich, ivy green, that matched her eyes perfectly, and popped her freckles like nobody's busin... | 11 | |
[WP] you have recently been voted in as the high priest of the cult of chaos. There is only one problem, your OCD has everything running like clockwork now. The chaos gods are...unsure how to proceed. | [
"\"But where is it all? The chaos, the randomness, the suffering?!?\"\n\n\"Oh, we still have suffering, your godliness. If you'll direct your attention this way, each of the punished has their own personal attendant, and our workforce efficiency is optimized at 100%!\"\n\nThe god of chaos turned his head in horror.... | 5 | |
[WP] Wizards and scientists are mortal enemies, and you are the only person in the universe who is both. | [
"Idiots. Blind, stubborn, idiots. \n\n\nThey could do so much good. Wizards, with their power and infinite capabilities. Scientists, with their true vision and intellect. So, so much is wasted.\n\n\nTonight was the straw that broke the camel’s back. There was a demonstration at the Magical Institute of technology. ... | 3 | |
[WP] The International Star Registry is legally binding and grants you ownersip of the star and all planets in that solar system. When Earth invents interstellar travel, you visit the star your weird uncle bought for you only to learn you're Emporer of an interplanetary civilization. | [
"My Uncle Vance was a strange man. He wore purple suits, ate toads feet for breakfast because they kept him 'young' and belived in the King Giant, the fairytale told to children to make them behave. But society accepted him because he was incredibly rich. He created the Elephant Sphere at 15, a series of space ship... | 2 | |
[WP] The apocalypse happens, and the only thing our descendants have to rebuild society is HowToBasic videos. | [
"It was a very dark time for all of humanity, The Information Apocalypse, as it came to be known. Within a matter of a few hours, most internet data banks, printed materials, and knowledge vaults were wiped clean. To this day, the only known repository of knowledge of the old world is the all powerful Youtube chann... | 2 | |
[WP] Everyone has a different superpower, yours is thought to be useless until you show your true power | [
"I groaned, picking my books up off of the floor.\n\n“Watch where you’re going Useless!” came a yell from in front of me.\n\n“Bite me,” I muttered.\n\nCollege sucked already, and I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m pretty sure it’s worse when the head cheerleader has the strength of an elephant to back up her mouth... | 1 | |
[WP] After years of a one-sided fight against crime, an overpowered super hero starts anonymously spreading rumors of his "vulnerabilities" to keep things interesting. | [
"Crime was becoming scarce in the city, with anyone bigger than a common street thug gone in to hiding. It wasn’t just this city either. They were afraid. Everyone was afraid. Well, not me, but that’s beside the point. The great “Undying Fist” was sweeping up the scum of society, and nothing could stop him. Bullets... | 1 | |
[WP] After noting the humans’ intent to spread into space due to their failing planet, aliens descend onto earth. Rather than wreaking havoc and destruction, they begin using advanced technology to repair the damage done by the humans. | [
"On the first day, the aliens descended on the Earth and absolutely obliterated any 'leader' that cast any doubt on the existence of climate change. They just came down in their ships and blasted them with precise lasers as they slept. Politicians everywhere with their hands in the wallets of fossil fuel companies ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are the chosen one, yet no one can really figure out what you've been chosen for... | [
"All my life I have been told I’m the chosen one. But what am I chosen for? I don’t know, the master doesn’t know, nobody’s knows. I come from a family of chosen one’s. My sister killed the evil king who wanted to conquer the whole world. My brother killed the dragon who wanted to destroy our beautiful country. My ... | 4 | |
[WP] beyond this point lies only misery and pain. There is nothing of value here or beyond. If you must proceed: do not return. | [
"It is 7am. \n\nI walk into your room. You are lying on your side in the bed. The monitors at your bedside chirp, streaming the live feed of your heartbeat. The bed hums as the air cells inflate and deflate, a gentle rhythm. Together with the soft chirp of the monitors and the rush of air forced into your lungs, it... | 1 | |
[WP] Humans inhabit Mars while Earth goes extinct, but after thousands of years they forget their origins and discover a new planet they may be able to inhabit... Earth. | [
"\"Did you say Earth?\"\n\n\"Yes sir, Earth.\" I answered shakily. I'd prepared for countless hours just for this presentation. The United Council of Mars had tasked us with coming up for a potential colonization location. Still, actually being face to face with the most powerful men and women on the planet had... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a dictator of the Roman Republic tasked with defeating a group of time travelers | [
"Sulla chatted idly with the senators at the entrance of the Curia Cornelia. The conversation was quite cordial, with a hint of trepidation. Many always felt that way in the presence of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, ever since he cleansed the streets of Rome of the filth he decreed had infested the city. The messenger ma... | 2 | |
It can be in use or abandoned, just have fun! | [WP] On the deepest ever manned mission to the Mariana Trench, everything is going smoothly until you see what looks like a base, emblazoned with a hammer and sickle. | [
" There had been a tale, and old legend. Back in WWII, there was a top secret recon submarine, the *USS Ishmael*, able to dive to depths no enemy could fathom, reching even into the midnight zone. It was on patrol in the western pacific ocean, shortly before the US dropped the A-bombs. Their mission was to make sur... | 1 |
[WP] Somewhere on an Alternate Earth, every adult is granted the right, just once, to legally kill any one other person at some point in their lives. | [
"# \n“You’ve probably heard of double jeopardy, at least the basic concept. But unless you we’re born on Nebulus, you’ve never heard about anything like this. \n\nThey call it Birthright. You’ll see the irony soon, believe me. The new Commander vetoed the proposal into law 3 generations ago, and by now we’ve come t... | 1 | |
[WP] You've married the girl of your dreams and are now going to visit your in-laws. However it turns out they are all demons and your father-in-law is none other than Lucifer himself. | [
"I knew my in-laws were bad, my wife always shied away from the subject. But when that plus sign showed up we knew we needed help. Our friends were all broke street performers, and despite their willingness, they were not able. My wife, Lucy, had told me her father could help, he was a supposedly some powerful man.... | 2 | |
[WP] you wake up one day with the ability to read anyone's mind, you feel like a superhero as you walk to school, but when you walk into your classroom you find out that your whole class has been plotting to kill you. | [
"It was a loud noise that woke me up this morning. I thought my mother was screaming. I wanted to shout that I was awake but then I realized my mother wasn’t screaming to me. I thought she was talking but the things I heard where not a thing a normal mother would say when here kid is close. I came downstairs for br... | 1 | |
Hope this sparks some ideas. | [WP] One day, a thousand people from across the world become telepathically linked, able to communicate, read each other's minds and share their stories in their mental community. You are NOT one of these people... but your spouse is. | [
"The DNA is the building blocks of humanity and everything that ever breathe, grow and move.\n\nDiscovery of this part of us was very important to advance more in technology, as it allowed to pave way for things like In vitro fertilization, and the rumored CRISP Technology.\n\nHundreds of years was done to understa... | 2 |
[WP] Everyone is born with the knowledge of the date of their deaths. Today is the day that you've been waiting for and it's 11:46 PM. | [
"The man couldn't help but wonder how it worked; How whatever force knew the dates and times. Was it God? who could say?\n\nHe closed his eyes and flexed his fingers. Savoring, for the last time, the feeling of muscle and bone moving. Devouring any sort of feelings of life that remained in him. The room was quiet, ... | 2 | |
[WP] While writing a story about one of your original characters you make them break the fourth wall so many times. Suddenly, there is a flash of light, the chime of a clock, and your character is in the room | [
"\"The person who wrote this is just calling for trouble. Have they even realized what they could unleash?\" \n \nStanding on a balcony, where a group of three men of similar height and complexion, though they differed on regards to fashion, hair length and color. \n \nThe man on the left scanned the area thoro... | 1 | |
[WP] Legends speak of an enchanted library which contains all books that have yet to be written. You intend to plunder it. | [
"The curator suddenly looked up at the clock and was shocked to see the time. \"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!\" He immediately shut, after clearly bookmarking the page, the fifth and last ever released book of the epic song of fire and ice series and hurried to the bookshelf.\n\n\"All right let's see.\" He... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an iota--a small, fragile, delicate being with power beyond calculable measure--and this is the story of the time you sacrificed yourself to save a universe that had all but completely forgotten about you. | [
"I remember that it hurt.\n\nLooking at her hurt. \n\nI sat in my dim apartment and stared at the piece of paper. 'Life Insurance Policy,' it read, 'Payout: 500,000 USD after proof of death is given.' I unholstered my pistol, the one I had carried by my side through three countries, over countless bodies, and back ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been in a coma for 5 years but can still hear everything going on around you. Every day, a voice you don't recognize comes to talk to you after everyone else leaves. One day that voice disappears under some rather unusual circumstances. You decide that its time to wake up. | [
"There is never a moment more dreadful then the first in the morning. When the lights burns at your eyelids and the commotion of the day refuses to let you drift back into sleep. That moment was my constant. They still slunk at the side of my bed once a week, saying I should have done this, or how I have caused so ... | 1 | |
[WP] Somewhere in the world an activist has his wish granted: every person on the planet is now Vegan. You are part of an international committee tasked with deciding what to do with the enormous amount of livestock worldwide | [
"\"Why not just leave them where they are? They aren't hurting anything.\"\n\n\"We need the land. It needs to be planted with crops. And immediately -- wheat, rice corn, something, anything. If not, billions of people will die. Of starvation. The world has enough surplus food stockpiled to make it until the ne... | 2 | |
[WP] One in five births gives a baby that ages twice as fast. | [
"\"Look, I'm not carrying the baby...\" I said. \"I don't think I can do it. I don't think I can give birth to someone who just... Twenty-five years and they're dead. Even then, sometimes the body grows too fast. Or worse the brain...\" \n\nI felt my husband pull away.\n\n\"But it's our child.\" \n\n\"It won't be ... | 1 | |
[WP] After a good run on a popular tween show, you are posed to become the next “big thing”. The network imprisons you into a hidden town complex, where the world’s biggest “stars” are expected to humanely live out their lives, while an engineered version takes their place in the real world. | [
"“How much would you give?” she thought back to that question which had landed her in a bittersweet purgatory. \nTween pop sensation Honour Chastityson, aka Selina Wilhelmina, could still feel the word anything hang on her lips. It seems as if time flittered by after that word was uttered. Like an eternity had pass... | 1 | |
[WP] Two morally grey kingdoms are at war. Our hero is a genuinely good person who can not stomach the idea of siding with either of them. | [
"\"Both of these kingdoms... Noxul and Luxon... Their both not evil nor good, they're... in the middle.\"\n\nThe hero, who was crowned as a genuine good guy by himself thought, he whispered to his pet, parrot, \" Hey bud, How should I handle this ? Who should I side with in their war ? Both of them asked for my hel... | 1 | |
[WP] Life and Death are like young lovers, however they are horrible at flirting with each other. Life makes a species, called ‘humans’ to help further her relationship. | [
"She was beauty and life and I was nothing more than evil and death. We had been in love with each other since thew beginning of time, but we never were able to touch. We longed for each other and we constantly tried to put beauty in the others life. \n\nWhen god created the light and dark, we came to be. Most ... | 1 | |
[WP] You've been raised by wolves as a child. You are forced to enter human society as an adult and you find it extremely disappointing. Explain your state of mind. | [
"A plate of food was set down on the table by a woman in black. I stared at my plate of food, the smell ascended up into my nose. I sneezed, overwhelmed by the amount of new smells.\n\nMy mouth started salivating at once. Never once in my life had I ever experienced something like this. Eating raw meat and vegetati... | 1 | |
[wp] You are a ghost exterminator, vacuum-style like Luigi's Mansion, today you get your scariest mission yet... A haunted kindergarten. | [
"\"VzzzRRRRRRR\", the backpack spins up and begins it monotonous humming sound. Today it's much more quite since I brought my hearing protection. They're all around good at noise cancelling but I bought the wrong size and they pinch my ears. Plus they are still kind of sticky from when I dumped my soda on them 3 mo... | 2 | |
[WP] Someone's been moving things around when you're asleep. One day, you decide enough is enough: you buy a camera system and set it to record. When you wake up, you find something you didn't expect. | [
"Andy sat back by his desk, satisfied that the monitoring system had been set up perfectly. He'd placed a camera in the corner of the room, as well as several dotted throughout the house. Someone had been moving the things in his room, his laptop, his phone, even his beloved childhood toy often ended up on the othe... | 1 | |
[WP] When the aliens came they were friendly. They invited us onto their ships and treated us well. We were the ones with ulterior motives. | [
"Kerns blew out the candles. Fifty-four years old. His hat started to tilt off, so he re-positioned it. All he could hear was the clapping resounding from his mother and father. \n“Fifty-four years old, huh? Pain’s not there yet, but it will be.”\n“Hahaha. I’m on a diet.” Kerns got up to grab a knife for the... | 2 | |
[WP] For the past few weeks you've been chatting with someone you met on a dating app. Things are going so well you decide to meet for lunch at a local cafe. When you get there you discover they've neglected to mention one VERY important thing, they're some kind of mythical creature! | [
"Tom fiddled with his collar as he sat at the restaurant bar awaiting his date. He checked his hair in the camera of his phone and then checked it again. *What if she see's me checking my face on my phone? She might think I'm taking a selfie as I wait,* he decided, promptly shoving his phone back into his denim poc... | 1 | |
[WP] A unicorn fantasizes about humans. Those wondrous fantasy creatures with mortal bodies and immortal souls that live like wild fire. | [
"Twinkles Fairydust slowly plodded along the worn path, the rickety cart bumping along behind him. His mind wandered, not for the first time, to the bed time tales he had heard as a little shimmer nestled up alongside his mother. Humans seemed so...magical. Wild. Free. The opposite of a unicorn.\n\nThey lived short... | 1 | |
[WP] "The persons whose names are written in this notebook... shall date." | [
"The Journal of a Rogue Angel \n\n\"The persons whose names are written in this notebook... shall date; well not just date, they fall in love. Some people need more convincing, those are the big contracts.\"\n\n\"Wait, that's all there is to this? Don't I like have a bow or something?\" I asked my mentor, some cher... | 1 | |
[WP] You wake up alone in a motel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or how you got there. On the bedside table is a map and a choose your own adventure book. | [
"I opened my eyes, soft yellow sunlight filled my vision. A quick inventory told me I was laying down on a bed, but I didn't feel comfortable. I sat up and looked around. The place was instantly recognizable as a crappy motel room, one I wasn't familiar with. I looked down at myself.\n\n\"*Still got my pants on*,\"... | 1 | |
[WP] No one knows how far down the hole goes. Some say it's a portal to Hell, others say it never ends. Commit a serious crime and you'll get to see for yourself. | [
" I couldn’t help myself. I honestly couldn’t. The pit was to heavily fortified to just walk in, so I had to do something real bad. I mean REALLY bad. So, long story short, I committed mass genocide. That would get me down that hole fast. I was waiting in my house, stalking the windows to see them. The ... | 6 | |
[WP] Arthur, King of the Britons, awakens from his slumber on Avalon to return to his people in their hour of need... but it turns out being really good with a sword and having knowledge of fifth century military tactics just isn't as useful as it used to be. | [
"Arthur: Old woman!\n\nJeremy: MAN!\n\nArthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?\n\nJeremy: I'm 68.\n\nArthur: What?\n\nJeremy: I'm 68, I'm not too old!\n\nArthur: Well, I can't just call you \"man\".\n\nJeremy: You could say \"Jeremy\".\n\nArthur: I didn't know you were called Jeremy.\n\nJer... | 1 | |
[WP] Souls are actually parasitic organisms that move when you die. | [
"At the instant of my last death I saw it; the shimmering, corrupt impression of a human form tearing itself away from my convulsing body. Before my eyes flickered closed for the final time, I saw the form roll and twist, I felt the hungry attention drawn to some distant location. In an instant, as the last white t... | 2 | |
[WP] Your archnemesis heroine suddenly disappeared. You track her down to a decrepit apartment, trying to be a single mother to a set of boy-girl twins of after losing her boyfriend to war. You have some memories of being a soldier before waking up to be the villain you are. | [
"Rex peered through the window of the second story apartment. “Someone really should figure out a way to secure fire exits.” The thought hit him as he crouched peering at an empty kitchen. \n\nThis was too easy, she was supposed to be the best, the one who could stop him the hero, or so everyone thought. But here h... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a guardian of a holy place destined to stop the evil that will destroy all of your kind. The day comes and the evil’s a child. | [
"*\"Captain! The beacons have been lit! Merida calls for aid!\"*\n\n\nThose words rang out in my head as I stared at the fiery beacons. I'd sent a detachment yesterday, and they'd yet to report. Smoke billowed over the town that sat just beyond the hills. \n\n\nI wrung my hands with worry as I looked over the horiz... | 1 | |
[WP] The mysterious Black Knight satellite appeared throughout the 20th century and was dismissed as a conspiracy theory. In 2027, it shows up again. And it sends a message: "Send help, please. You are in more danger than you know." | [
"The end of the message contained therein only consisted of nonsensical combinations of the same numbers, only eerie strings of the 1 and 0, strings of numbers that could perhaps never know the significance of what they contained. \n\nThe young man staring at the computer screen quickly struck a few strokes into th... | 1 | |
[WP] Despite all the effort to deceive the public since its founding in 1920, an NFL player accidentally goes off script. | [
"It was the beginning of the end of professional sports in America, that fateful Sunday in February. \n\nBefore that day there was a veil over they eyes of the American people. It was an illusion they were born into since 1920, one they couldn’t see and never knew was there. Not until then. \n\nSunday, February 2nd... | 1 | |
[WP] You love kids, but always seem to repel them. Every time you go near one they run away crying. Except this one kid, who follows you everywhere. | [
" All my life kids have been terrified of me. Even my own nieces and nephews scream in terror at my presence, I’ve been banned from more stores than I can count and am not allowed at family gatherings. I haven’t talked to someone under the age of 13 in over a decade. Growing up I wanted to be a teacher, tha... | 1 | |
[WP] As the game of dungeons and dragons began, the lone player braced themselves against the insanity that the 5 separate co-DMs were about to bring! | [
"By the gods! Poor Sybil has become their plaything. They have beset her path with all manner of tribulations, strewn her life with a myriad of creatures both good and evil. \nAand...\n\"Stop whining you rolled 5/20 so you get to be the lone adventuress.\" Well i guess i had it coming because of me being a rather l... | 1 |
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