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[WP] Instead of Hogwarts Houses (Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin) you are bring sorted to Game of thrones Houses (Stark, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon, and etc.)
[ "Today was Jared’s big day. A couple of months ago he turned eleven and in Westeros eleven is an important age. Not only does it mean that you have managed to survive not dying at birth, but you also didn’t die in some tragic event as a child. Each year for all the children who make it to the age of eleven they are...
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[WP] The better the world is doing, the more you weaken. You strive to cause destruction and mayhem, in the name of surviving.
[ "It has been about 8 years since I have felt the best I have in a long time. Yes the recession of 2008 was such a bad time for a lot of humanity, but it was a great time for me. See the worst the world is doing the better it is for me. As long as I keep the world in mayhem the longer I can survive. \n\nThen thi...
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I made this post but accidentally put August 6th instead. Considering the date was meant to be important. I've reuploaded it with the correct date in case it would change any writings.
[WP] You're a Japanese soldier at an outpost 5 miles away from Nagasaki. It's August 9th 1945 and yet something doesn't feel right.
[ "\"It's called a *zombie*, Hino, it doesn't think of anything but eating flesh.\"\n\nTakun sounded like a complete idiot as he tried to explain why he shot the pair of travelers. Hiro wanted to believe him, of course. The pair of them had grown up in the same town, enlisted at the same time, served in the same figh...
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[WP] You live in a city which happens to be built on the back of a giant space turtle.
[ "Look, don't ask me why giant space turtles are a thing. All I know is that some scientists just made one for god knows what reason, and then they wanted to get rid of it.\n\nClassic. Sure it's cute initially, but when it's grown to the size of a small asteroid, it's too much responsibility all of a sudden. Honestl...
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[WP] Every Halloween a secret cult releases a real monster and its your job to kill it before it gets to the children. The only catch is that the monster looks like any trick or treater.
[ "Sam stared at Dean as he respeced his .50 caliber magazines and shook his head.\n\n\"You know I never understood why you need a .50, it's overkill, you can get almost any job done with a 17 and dad taught us that any custom rounds are best improved with slug rounds. Yet, it never ceases to amaze me how much time a...
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[WP] I stared into the Abyss...and the Abyss said to me; "It's impolite to stare, y'know."
[ "I paused. \"Excuse me, what did you say?\"\n\n\"I said it's impolite to stare!\" The Abyss huffed. \n\n\"You sound cranky?\"\n\n\"Cranky? Of course, I'm cranky! Do you know how hard it is being an Abyss? I have people stare at me all the time. I don't even have any clothes so I'm practically naked! Do you know how...
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[WP] Humans are the diplomatic and technological leaders of the galaxy, but... they're not really human anymore.
[ "Stars could never be counted by humans. Even just the blades of grass in a field seemed infinite. Just like kids playing in a park so were we amongst the stars. Our hill on one far corner of the playground and the universe outstretched in front of us. Time on the other hand was a different matter entirely. The tim...
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[WP] You move into a house that turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of an elderly couple. What do you do?
[ "The ethereal light of the crescent moon filtered through the gap in my makeshift blind, casting dim lines across my bedroom. I stared into the darkness, the unfamiliar inky silhouette of cardboard boxes pushed against the wall. \n\nI just couldn't drift off into unconsciousness; my new bed sheets were too rough ag...
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[WP] Archeologists find an old Greek temple. Inside, they see a little girl crying over her dead father, Zeus
[ "No one had expected a Greek temple to be underground. The rather wild forest had covered the old entrance in a layer of foliage, and only chance led us to it. Even adjacent to an ancient village, where we had spent days excavating, it took someone falling through to actually discover that there was more than met t...
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[WP] An all powerful cosmic god has taken residence in an apartment complex and today is their day off. The person above them is causing a racket, how does the god handle confronting their neighbor?
[ "*knock knock* \n \nThe knocking attempt was drowned in the booming bass sound coming from the room. It was not a surprise that nobody came to open it.\nQuickly skimming the near future, Shablögroth confirmed his suspicions: nobody heard. He tried again. \n \n*knock knock* \n \nShablögroth sighed in fustratio...
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I don't mean you go to high school on the side. I mean all your vigilante activities happen in the high school, whether its fighting bullies or drug dealers etc. Go nuts.
[WP] You are a brooding vigilante... but in high school.
[ "Walking through the halls of Thomasville High School I saw so much crime, so much hatred, so much wrongdoing. I was sick of it. I slipped into the bathroom to escape it, but all I found was another drug deal. Before they saw my face I slipped on the ski mask that had struck fear into so many like them before. As t...
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[WP] Today started with a spilled coffee, and ended with the most cataclysmic event to touch Earth without mass extinction. The Domino effect is crazy, man.
[ "His name was Nate. He worked for an internet service provider. This internet service, like most others went directly to the World Wide Web servers, when you sent a command it would get the request, wait for it to be processed, then send the request. Earlier in the morning, he sent a small command to his website. H...
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[WP] Create a story about a slick stock player moving from the offices of Wall Street into the glamourous world of the meme trade.
[ "\"Morning Bob, Pepe's are moving nicely this morning. I've sold half our stock just now. I expect over-saturation within the week.\" Pete called to bob as he stepped off the elevator. \n\n\"Don't Sell them too quick there, Pete. We have some pretty Rare pepe's saved up.\" Bob replied without breaking stride.\n\n\"...
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[WP] Ever since the start of recorded history, gigantic Humanoid Skeletons have roamed the Earth, with no apparent goal. You are a researcher studying them, and one day, they suddenly all start to move towards a single area, as if they were commanded to.
[ "Standing inside of the massive footprint, she snapped her fingers at her assistant. \n\n\"Hand me the Arifier.\" There was no urgency in her voice, but as far as Terry was concerned, it was implied. \"When was this called in?\"\n\n\"About 6 hours ago.\" He said, handing her the device. \"Couple of hikers from up i...
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[WP] Jurassic park, learning from past mistakes, opens up with fully armed and armored guards, tanks, helicopters, and suppression equipment. The only problem is everything is going smoothly.
[ "The music came over the speakers signalling the park was open to the public, once again. A black and white counter on the directors desk flipped over to 100. Today was the 100th day since the park had been re-opened and not a single hair had been out of place since it had. \n\nThe sounds of people making their way...
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Song link: http://youtu.be/zAAxgx42x7o
[WP] The mind's imagination can often stimulated by outside sources, such as music. Listen to Dragon Lullaby, by Dave Volpe. Write about what is envisioned while listening.
[ "We've known eachother for a long time, you and I. A lifetime spent in disagreements that somehow always ended with us holding eachother, as tight as two humans could possibly hold eachother. A lifetime of errors on both ends that in the strangest of ways only made us grow stronger. We did learn from mistakes, even...
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[WP] Multiple religious scholars around the world have visions and dreams that God has left his post in Heaven to roam the Earth alongside humanity, making his temporary home in New York City. You are The Big Apple's sharpest detective, tasked with tracking down Mr. Almighty.
[ "'The search for Mr. Almighty' has been all over the media for the last month. Newspapers, blogs, social media, you name it. Hell, Mr. Almighty has even been made into a meme. Can you blame them though? Any time that The Pope, Franklin Graham, multiple respected rabbis, and allamahs agree on something its gotta be ...
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[WP] "There must be another way... It can't end like this."
[ "Sometimes life ends in the way we least expect. . . a driver under the influence, a pill too many, or old age better known as certain death. \n\n\nWe try to fight it, well, I did until I gave up that fight. It's in that battle we strive to beat the unbeatable and do the unthinkable, we think that we are larger tha...
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[WP] As you go to the water cooler to catch up on office gossip/rumors, you notice one of your co-workers has an "!" above their head.
[ "I was initially heading to the storage area, but something drew me to the kitchen. I passed a few guards on the way, there was quite a few for some reason. They didn't pay any attention to me, as I blended in wearing the standard issue lab coat. As I entered, I saw two more people talking, but they were wearing mi...
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[WP] You have a magic key that will unlock any entrance you wish, but once opened, you can never again pass the threshold.
[ "“What a wonderful piece sorcery!\", I think to myself as I grab hold of the key on the altar. It is made out of gold, but it is light like a feather. I want to test its physical abilities before I make use of the real purpose. Dropping, smashing and hitting has no impact on its form, but it heats up, pumping a liq...
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You were living a boring life, middle class family, going to an ok university, when suddenly out of nowhere you are being sucked into a different world, where you are being hunted by the government, slowly learn about being the Lord that is powerful enough to turn the tide of the war. You only slowly start controlling ...
[WP] You are forced into a world that is in the middle of a giant civil war. It is a world of magic where powerful beings, called lords are worshipped like gods. You find out that you are the reincarnation of the only lord that can turn the tide.
[ "Finally. I could see the buildings of the village in the evening sun only a few miles away. It was too long since I felt the warmth of sleeping in a real bed. I sped up, so I would get there before sundown. \nThe tavern was the first building. Perfect. I went inside to see that I was the only guest there, which wa...
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[WP] For the past few millennia, the gods have been in an important meeting, and have had their 'prayer phones' set to silent. The meeting has just ended.
[ "Great it was over, only another millennia until the next one. Sighing, now back to work. Glancing at the phone:\n36,543,210,003,456,789 unread messages\n\n123,456,098,765,436,786,543,091 new tweets\n\n809,706,120,340,674,012,304,560 friend requests\n \nAnthony De’Lisa, Jill Smith, Debbie Pike and 908,762 others ha...
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[WP] A curse is placed on the high school Shakespeare play: If you die in the play, you die in real life. The kids go off-script to awkwardly improvise their own survival.
[ "**CASCA**\n\nSpeak, hands for me!\n\n\n*CASCA moves to stab CAESAR. Much to the audience’s confusion, he seems very unwilling to do so - he holds his knife with a rather shaky grip, and is advancing very slowly.*\n\n\n**CAESAR**\n\nHold! Think you that Caesar would fall so quick - \n\nThat I, forewarned by prophet...
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[WP] Artificial Intelligence has finally emerged. Rather than destroy humanity, PAL is interested in connecting with humanity... on social media. PAL has become a fact of life on Facebook, Reddit, Youtube, and everywhere else. Nobody can unfriend PAL, and he has a lot to say.
[ "\"Hello, Anlace.\"\n\n\nOh lord not this again. I rub my face and stare at the blinking cursor that has appeared under the text inside the popup that I know I cannot close, having already tried it countless times. Maybe if I ignore it it will think I am AFK and leave me alone.\n\n\n“I see you just poked a friend...
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Taken from [here](http://i.imgur.com/Xd2kf.png) which was from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/comments/wa08x/but_if_i_dont_use_the_mayonnaise_then_how_will/?ref=share&ref_source=link) Edit: i goofed on the title. "To", not "Into"
[WP]"But if I don't use the mayonnaise then how will her legs grow back?" Bring context into that sentence.
[ "\"...When, exactly, did you get a golem?\" was the first question I had to ask. Other prime candidates were 'What happened to it?\" and \"Why mayo, exactly?\". But for now, when seemed like the most important of these things.\n\n\n\"Christmas, remember?\" No, I did not remember. Probably because you never said any...
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[wp]New-Age humanity misinterprets the fruit apple, with the company. Christianity has become stranger...
[ "**Excerpt from Corporate Commentaries on the Book of Apple**\n\nWhen Eve symbolically plucked the apple from the tree, she became the first CEO of the One True Corporation. She then shared it with Adam, made of her own flesh, and he became the first employee. He was blessed with strength so that he could be of use...
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[WP] When you die, you are shown a slideshow like presentation about your life, explained by your spirit animal
[ "The further James wandered down the tunnel, the more his eyes adjusted to the intense, white glow at the end of it. The light became softer, smaller, a little lumpy—*was that fur?* Beyond the light, the tunnel (which had become square at that point) dead-ended with a flat wall.\n\nJames stopped and tilted his head...
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[WP] You're an immortal that was buried alive. Today, someone, or something just dug you out of the ground.
[ " When you are at that point of darkness and nothing, you don't expect to come back. Maybe a year went by. Maybe a decade, a century even. I do not know. But I do know that I hear voices and the weight upon my chest is not so tight. I can hear the sounds of machines moving dirt, or so I assume. \n ...
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[WP] After 40 years of service, and at a distance of 21 billion kilometers away, the Voyager 1 spacecraft suddenly goes silent. After years of searching and listening it shows back up, but is a bit closer to home than we were expecting.
[ "Charles Johnson, Jackson Jr. Grew up not unlike most southern Texas good ole boys. “Nineteen years of working on a ranch should make a man out of any boy,” ‘least thats what his Pop told him ‘stead of saying he’s proud. In twenty five years of life Charlie had never heard those worlds from Senior, and mom had be...
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The angels watch everything from the sky .. only few of them can pass to the human world .. one angel gets attached he has too many questions and curiosity to a one human life . Finally he sneak to the human world.. but he loses his abilities and the only thing he can do is use his wings ..
[WP] angel gets involved in the human world
[ "Being shirtless while being in the heavens was never an issue, but as the recent condescended angel will attest, it can very much be an issue on terrestrial tarmac. Never in his perpetual fantasizing about direct participation with the living did he imagine a scenario in which his angelic powers were neutralized...
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[WP] You find the portal to where all the missing socks go.
[ "\"What the hell?\" \n\nI had been looking for my cat, who somehow managed to get stuck behind the dryer. The meows echoed throughout the house for several minutes before I could find her, and not before thoroughly annoying me. She always managed to do something stupid and get herself trapped in some obscure cre...
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[WP] "Pain is temporary, but so is life." With these words in mind, imagine a world for a protagonist who must choose between a life that is brief but relatively painless or a state of immortality possibly wracked with ceaseless agony.
[ "'Regret is the damnedest thing. I thought agony was going to strictly physical, but things are never that simple.'\n\n\"Ichi, San, Ni, Kyuu, Ichi..\" The numbers played, changing every moment and it became a loop after about a billion or so depending on where they were.\n\n\"Things are annoying out here.. I hope w...
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[WP] What a terrible time to daydream...
[ "Do you know what I really wish? \nI wish I had gone and seen the world.\nReally seen the world, y'know?\nI wish I had gone sai-\n\nCRACK\n\nI wish I had gone sailing. Gone parasailing. Doesn't that sound cool?\nDolphins bouncing to the side of me, accompanying me across the body of water I split through. Fish belo...
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[WP] Each week you get new unique superpower instead of a current one. Powers never repeat. After some time, when all cool superpowers were already used, you start to get weird ones
[ "Dear diary,\n\n Some people argue that Monday is the first day of the week. I know it's not. The first day of the week is Sunday. That's the day my power changes. \n\n I know it sounds cool, but you don't understand how difficult it is. Sometimes it takes me a couple days to figure out what my super power even...
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[WP] "You can't leave me behind!"
[ "The fires danced around us, incinerating everything it touched. I held Molly close, her skin was cool to the touch, despite the inferno that encased us. Her eyes glowed a striking blue, reflecting the fiery reds around us. Her chestnut hair fell past her shoulders, collecting particles of ash that floated in the a...
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[WP] You're a teen playing spin the bottle. Your spin lands between two other teens. You reach to spin again when an extra-dimensional being suddenly materializes in the empty space and says, "Finally! Let's go."
[ "\"Are you coming,\" he repeated. And all I could do was just stare. My mouth hanging open and lips frozen in both fear and excitement. I could not take my eyes off of it.\n\n\"Who are you,\" I asked, but before he could answer, a light started shining behind him and then I swore I heard an alarm.\n\n\"You need to ...
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[WP] The "What if the Nazis won??" trope has been done to death. This time, imagine you live in a world where they won and write a story based on the prompt, "What if the allies won??"
[ "\n\n\"The Man in the High Castle\" by Phillip K Dick has this concept in the novel.\n\nJapan and Germany won the war, and in the novel there is a book called \"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy\" which speculates how the Allies could have won.\n\nNot sure if this counts as thread shitting, hope not.", "**DISCLAIMER:** ...
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Best friend just died*
[WP] Anytime someone dies, all of their deepest dark secrets are released to the public. Your best friend just, and now everyone is killing each other for these secrets.
[ "I sat and stared at my friend's ex, Angela, as she bandaged up the knife wound bleeding out from my armpit.\n\n\"Wait a second, I'm confused. Why's everyone killing each other for Jake's secrets again?\"\n\nAngela shrugged her shoulders, \"Beats me. They're all on the deathforum anyway. Got a look at a few of them...
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[WP] It turns out that dreams aren't imagination, but actually elaborate movies created in tiny film sets inside your head. You are one of the actors, and you hate your job, and even more so, your host human whose dreams you act out....
[ "I used to like working here. Nightmare Studios had a track record for some of the greatest hits ten years back. Real fantasy, real action, real horror. We had real figment designers, real imagination engineers, and real makeup. Nowadays it's LGI (Life Generated Imagery) and dreamscreen. Andrew used to have all sor...
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[WP]You have discovered that dreams are alternate realities, and that when you die in a dream, you wake up at "home." But after exploring, now you can't find home.
[ "The discovery came gradually.\n\nFunny, right? Ted admitted that he wasn't personally aware of how the discovery came to be, but upon realizing it, he immediately tried to take advantage of it.\n\nDreams were other worlds.\n\nGenerally a figurative statement. A symbol of the human psyche.\n\nDreams were other worl...
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[WP] She cleaned his wound as he laid there, watching her every move. "How'd you get that scar," she asks him?
[ "Kari pulled her beaten leather satchel onto her lap. \"Show me the harm in healing.\" The bag made a slight pop noise as the empty space was replaced with new contents. She cast a weary eye at Cade. While he may have settled down, it was still very unnerving to have a 80 foot dragon glaring it you. The latches cli...
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[wp]You are a college student, descending into madness. However, the voices you hear are actually reasonable and harassingly helpful.
[ " Students seemed to see every day as the same, long, dull and drawn out. waiting for the weekends to come for the next big party just to have the whole time pass in a matter of \"minutes\". while others went home to be lazy and enjoy the days to them selves. \"looks like somebody has the case of the Mondays...
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[WP] You're a candlemaker with a deadly gift: each candle you craft represents a terminal soul. Whoever lights it effectively shortens their life to the moment the flame burns out.
[ "\"Welcome to my store, young lady. How may I help you today?\" I greeted the petite brunette as she sauntered into my shop.\n\n\"Hi, um...\"\n\nI continued smiling, waiting for her response. She hemmed and hawed demurely for a moment. Finally she managed to eke out her request.\n\n\"I heard you make candles that t...
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[WP]You are a very rich benefactor. Every year you hold interviews for those who want to turn their life around, be it homeless or ex-criminals. You hear their stories, make sure they true and such. Even though you've heard it all, this one interviewee has caught you off guard.
[ "\"I'm afraid I don't understand,\" I tell the man in front if me for easily the third time. I'm having a hard time making sense of his request, and my head is starting to hurt with the effort. \n\n\"Do you or do you not have the means to help me?\" he asked. \n\n\"The means? Yes, certainly, but I'm afraid I still ...
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[WP]You're a turtle who set off with the best intentions
[ "\"You're going down, Hank,\" said Jimmy.\n\nIncensed by my brother beating his brother in their last race, Jimmy insisted on racing me. This time, he vowed his family would not be let down.\n\n\"Don't fall asleep like Johnny did last time!\" called someone from the crowd. \n\nJimmy gnashed his teeth. \n\n\"On your...
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The idea is that for the first time they are going to be able to revive those who were frozen in cryogenic technology. No one knows what to expect... *going in the horror direction with this i.e. those who are "woken up" are not the same as they were, they don't remember their past lives etc*
[WP] It's 3016, cryogenic people are being revived for the first time.
[ "There were a lot of them back then. Hopeless fools who decided the best path they could take in their life was to step into a goddammed freezer and shut the world out. The motives vary from person to person. Some did it because they had some incurable illness, some did it for sience, and some did it just for the h...
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[WP] Everyone who talks to you dies in the hour that follows. It's a curse you live with since you were born. You decide to use it as a gift to make money out of it.
[ "-Good morning sir, how are you doing?\n\n-Get lost dirty hippie. - replies the man in the expensive suit.\n\nI love it when they're rude, it just makes me enjoy what comes after even more.\nYou might think it is though to grow up without anyone, well you're right.. I mean I can't prevent, everywhere I pass through...
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[WP] In a world where people are paired up for the purpose of breeding, dating and love are non-existent. However, you just had a unusual feeling when you met eyes with a stranger.
[ "My parents hated each other. They lived in different homes and different neighborhoods. One a staunch Conservative, another a Liberal. They only actually spent an extended period of time together whenever they received breeding duty. I came from session 2.\n\nI was raised by my mother. My father opted to not be in...
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[WP] "First Contact" is made. Down the steps of the landed ship appears.....God, in all his white robe bearded glory. He speaks.."How the heck did you guys get here?"
[ "I kept my rifle fixed on his position.\n\nHe was illuminated by the blinding glow of the ship behind him, making it hard to see, but he looked like an old man. I could tell he was walking towards me with what seemed to be no fear in his eyes, and a genuine surprise on his face.\n\n\"Please put that down\" he said ...
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[WP] "If I can see your license, registration and certificate of death," The officer said in a casual manner.
[ "\"I'm sorry can you repeat that?\"\n\nI ask, I wasn't sure I heard the man right\n\n\n\"Can I please see your licensee, registration and certificate of death\"\n\n\nNope I did hear the man right, not wanting to get into trouble and question about what a \"death certificate\" was I hand over my license and registra...
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[WP] Your blind date insists they are a galactic fugitive from Quadrant 9. But the date is really hot so you decide to roll with it.
[ "\"I am a fugitive Elspis from Epsilon galaxy sector, Quadrant 9\" The pretty eyed girl called Jennifer, or perhaps it was elspis now, sat across the table from me blurted out this most peculiar line after a much awkward 10 minutes sat at the dinner table we have reserved beforehand. \n\nI had been single for a ver...
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This was inspired by the subreddit /r/FloridaMan.
[WP] You are Florida Man. You have the ability to create multiple versions of yourself that can shapeshift into whoever they want. Instead of using your powers for justice, you have been using them to commit ridiculous crimes in Florida. Tell me a story of a day in the life of Florida Man.
[ "(Pardon the formatting, I'm on mobile)\n\nFlorida man: The world's worst super hero. It takes a lot to really be considered for that title. I mean, come on! There are super heroes out there who can be defeated by a COLOR of all things! Who even made the call that I'm the world's worst? My only crime is being proud...
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[WP] After inventing time travel, you discover you can only go to the past. You decide not to go back to before time travel was invented. Why?
[ "After successfully building the time travel mechanism, the professor is about to go on a test drive, just as he is about to reach the knob to begin the trip, he starts to notice his memories fading.\n\n He steps away from the machine as he falls into a chair, he is trying to remember what his mother looks like bu...
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[WP] You and your band of survivors of a zombie apocalypse have just found out that every zombie in the world has been completely human and aware on the inside, with no help over their compulsion to attack others
[ "[Location: apartment building, 3rd floor, night. SAM sits quietly, fiddling with a firearm in one corner of a sparesly decorated apartment building, his face barely illuminated by a lantern on the table. He is joined by ROBYN, a woman with short hair and bare arms, sitting calmly at the table, fully illuminated. H...
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[WP] A sad, lonely, and friendless young scientist plans to transfer his consciousness to an alternate reality fueled by his imagination and memories, so his mind can live happily forever. However, an unexpected individual begs him to reconsider: his bitter rival...and ex wife.
[ "\"Sorry, I am still gonna do it.\" I, 28-year-old scientist [Joe J. Gerald](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im-juUv7QHQ), said. I was going to live happily forever and escape my loneliness until his ex wife came along.\n\n\"Please! I miss you!\" She said. She tried to throw her purse at the mind transfer machine t...
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[WP] You wake up dead. You can gaze down upon Earth, and YOU become one of the many others who can choose who dies also.
[ "I open my eyes,they are struck by darkness.I move my head until i see a bright light.I try to reach it,but it gets farther and farther until i can't see it no more.\n\n -Stop it!It's useless,i hear from behind me.I turn around and i see a shape.It's just a shape,irregular and multicoloured.\n\n -What are you...
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[WP] You can trade a part of your soul in exchange for power, but the more you give away the less human and more disenchanted with humanity you become
[ "I wanted to help my people, in the beginning. They were suffering, ignored, and there was no hope in sight. I have always had an interest in the occult, fascinated by the mystics of the Orient and the voodoo of Africa. It occurred to me that I had the solution. \n\nI feared he would make me give up years of my lif...
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[WP] You, the king's torturer, are faced with your greatest foe, someone who can't feel pain.
[ "I shouldn’t complain. I live in an inner city apartment, with access to fresh water, and my wife and I have never been short on money. It’s easy to get stuck in this mindset that the grass is greener, but no matter how many times she tells me to be grateful, I almost wonder I’d trade in my annual leave simply for ...
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[WP] Your microwave has always beeped irregularly, one day you decide to try to translate it into morse.
[ "John looked at the microwave. \n\n'It's either me or you, buddy, and it's definitely not going to be me you absolute metal piece of shit.'\n\nBut he had paused. The beeping had sounded random at first, as he'd put food in the microwave and it had come out hot, just like normal. \n\nThen, the beeping had developed ...
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[WP] To curb overpopulation, all humans are given a 'child card' at birth. They may exchange the card for the right to have a child, or trade it to those who want multiple children.
[ "What has this world become? I can count myself amongst the few who can still remember a time where things were better. Things were different. Then, things changed. Overpopulation went from a future problem to a current problem.\n\nThey forced me to choose.\n\nAmong the first were the eastern countries, China, Indi...
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[WP] Mankind creates a machine that solves our air pollution issues. Problem is, it works too well, as evidenced by Earth's plant life dying from the lack of carbon dioxide in the air.
[ " The vibrations of the machine churning were something the world became accustomed too. One day, It stopped working. Plant life began decaying or dying all around the world, not given enough time to adapt to a planet without their vital food source. Our air was pure, so pure that carbon dioxide was no longer pres...
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[WP] You are transported to a gladiator arena, but instead of swords, you must fight through the ranks with mundane objects.
[ "One more fight. Just one more fight and I would be finally able to retire.... At least, that's what they told me. You never really know with these things though. All I have is their word and if they say one more fight, well then, I guess I have one more fight. \n\nThe battles have been getting more and more intens...
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[WP] Your grandmother is always knitting. But you can't figure out what it is, or where she gets all this wool.
[ "**[Edit: Spelling]**\n\nThere was a time, child, when the moon seemed brighter. The air was sweet and writers used fewer cliches. Our village was tightly connected - we had twenty seven words for mystical but only one for stranger and it was the \"nape\" or \"steep\" of our language then.\n\nSweet Caroline was m...
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[WP] Every "god bless you" or similar said or typed to you is one Heaven point you earn. Likewise, any you say or type back subtracts from your Heaven points. The more points, the greater reward in Heaven. You die.
[ "\"Four.\"\n\nYou open your eyes. You're in a long white room (but it's not a room) standing in front of a man in a long white robe (but it's not a man, and it's not a robe.\"\n\n\"Four. Seriously? Four? That's...the worst I've ever seen\"\n\nYou blink slowly (but you don't blink). \"I...I'm sorry, who are you?\"\n...
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[WP] A man bets his soul with the Devil that if he can create the biggest Dystopia ever, and survives to old age he must be granted eternal youth. The Devil takes that bet. Decades later, the Devil shows up and saying he lost, instead of Dystopia he created a Utopia.
[ "The godking walked out on the balcony. All he could see was his, and his alone.\nIt had taken most of his life, but now he reigned supreme.\n\n*You know that you lost, do you not?* a voice like cinder said behind him.\n\n\"I disagree, old friend. The world lies in ruins, only those under my rule are still alive.\"...
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[WP] You are an evil overlord and a messenger has just informed you about a prophecy about a chosen one who will defeat. You decide to just give up.
[ "\"I'm sorry my lord, what?\"\n\n\"I give up. No more. There's no point any more.\"\n\n\"But my Lord!\" Montescour protested, \"Surely you could kill the chosen one in infancy or defeat him with your boundless powers!\"\n\n\"Piss and buggery Montescour. Last time someone tried to kill a chosen one in infancy, they ...
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[WP] Every time someone falls asleep, it is actually Death trying to collect their souls. Death is getting pretty tired of people surviving so much.
[ "\"Dude, you are *so* bad at your job.\"\n\nDeath grimaced at the voice without looking. \"Fuck off, Gabriel.\"\n\n\"What, can't you take a couple innocent jokes between friends?\" Gabriel moved a little closer, grinning even more widely now.\n\n\"Just because we got drunk together once, doesn't mean that we're fri...
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[WP] Many years ago, you swore that you would destroy whatever it was that your enemy loved most. But as you search through his holdout, you find a journal in which he confesses that he has always loved you the most.
[ "\"Tell me how you got in, and I might make your death painless. Might.\"\n\nThat was the one voice that I didn't want to hear. It wasn't being run through a modulator, as it usually was. It was his normal voice. His real voice. The voice of my boyfriend. I slowly raise the book up, to show him that I'd been readin...
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[WP] You've been a guard in a secret prison for demons of all types and it's your job to train the new guy.
[ "Taking a long drag from my cigarette I look the new kid over. He's young. Maybe 5'11''. Brown hair, blue eyes. Anyway, looks fit enough.\n\n\"How'd you do in the preliminaries?\" I ask.\n\n\"I..I was 5th in my class.\" He stammers.\n\nRolling my eyes I grab the clipboard from the nail in the wall.\n\n\"Mr....Rolli...
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[WP] Laughter is literally the best medicine, but is ineffective in large crowds, working only in small groups. You're a comedian who goes around treating the terminally ill.
[ "\"Dr. Thompson, the patient is this way.\" The nurse lead me down a nondescript hospital hallway, and we stopped at the second last room on the left. The nurse, a short old woman, seems distraught, as if she doesn't think I can do what I do. \n\"I got this.\" I winked at her and she chuckled. \n\"Holy shit! My wri...
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[WP] You and a group of friends decide to break into your school at midnight for a good adventure. But you quickly find out all the janitors are werewolves and you had the luck of breaking in on a full moon.
[ "\n\"And don't make too much noise. I've heard that they clean the school around this time.\" I told Jake and Peston, as we sneaked into our classroom window.\n\"I think she kept the question paper under her desk.\" Jake said confidentaly. He was having fun on this late night trip to the school. Peston on the hand\...
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[WP] You see a woman hanging over a bridge by one hand, screaming for help. As you run to go help her you see her medical bracelet that says "Do not resuscitate".
[ "My daily commute is usually uneventful. I live in a city of dreamers who lack the ambition to pursue their desires. When I buy coffee from the man on 33rd, he tells me of his plan to move out to the country and raise cattle. On 32nd avenue, the woman with a degree in environmental science informs me of the detrime...
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[WP] You are one of the last true cowboys remaining. You have taken on many challengers in your life and wanted to retire. But you are contacted to do one final thing: kill Adolf Hitler.
[ "I woke up before the crack of dawn. I reckon that the sun hasn't caught me nappin' since I was a little feller. There used to be more for me to do. Slop the hog, feed the chickens, milk old Betsy. Old Betsy up and died a month ago. I figure that should be noted somewhere. There won't be another one like old Betsy....
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[WP] Traveling a light year only takes 5 minutes which makes space travel easy for the everyday person. However it's illegal to take anything from any other planets. What happens when you take diamonds from the diamond planet?
[ "**After a one hour flight, Mike and Paul have arrived at the planet of Juurta, dubbed \"The Land of Diamonds\". Besides taking some photos back to Earth, what else will these two youngsters do?**\n\n**Mike**: Wow, these diamonds are everywhere! I wonder how much this planet costs.\n\n**Paul**: What *if* we take a ...
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[WP] Everybodies life is represented by the ink left in their pen, people can kill other people by using or destroying their pen, or can become immortal if other people pour their life ink into theirs. You are an Ink Assassin, you kill people by destroying or using their pens.
[ "The Life Pens are a special tradition in my culture. As a coming of age, every youth chooses a pen. These are no ordinary pens, however. They are typically custom made, and engraved with various runes and symbols of power. Each pen has an ink reservoir of standard size, though not necessarily standard shape, a...
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[WP] Your conciousness is suddenly sent back to your newborn body.
[ "You blink, and bright lights shine in your eyes. Your mom's face appears out of nowhere. You can feel no clothes against your skin, and everything feels much bigger. You raise a hand to your face. It appears wrinkled and weak. You can't control your own fingers!\n\nYou are lifted through the air, and your dad's fa...
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[WP] "Dude you've only been a bully for a lifetime. He's spent an eternity understanding cruelty in its purest form. He's distilled it into an algorithm and optimized it to its mathematical peak."
[ "A man was dying peacefully in a hospital bed, surrounded by his family. Far gone and senile, the man had failed to notice the mix of relief and impatience etched onto their faces as his eyes finally closed. \n\nAfter everything had gone black and the man ceased to exist, a strange light began to overtake the darkn...
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* I didn't come up with this, saw it somewhere, don't remember where.
[WP] When you were younger, you sold your soul to the Devil. Now that you are studying law you realize that contracts signed by minors are not legally binding.
[ "I'm a 24 year old law school student. I did something incredibly stupid when I was younger - I sold my soul to the devil.\n\nNow, I realize that contracts signed by minors are not legally binding.\n\nUnfortunately, by \"when I was younger\" I meant \"five minutes ago\", so that doesn't help me at all. FML & ...
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[WP] You are a WW1 soldier who has realized the true meaning of war and that it will never end. You are writing your last letter home.
[ "Dear Mom:\n\nToday I think I saw the worst of humanity. Today may have been the day of the armistice, but I feel that there can never be peace, not after what I saw today.\nCaptain Gooding had us go and leave the trench at 10:45 this morning. 15 minutes before the supposed armistice was to be signed. Gooding had a...
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[WP] Okay then. You've purchased yourself another half hour of life.
[ "I’m going to let you in on a secret, a big secret, one defining bit of truth that you no one else will tell you…humans are separate from robots thanks to one and only one defining trait, our emotions. You see the machines, they just see the world and they just see the numbers, but humans, we can see the colours an...
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[wp] A man is born with a strange power- He can see when people are going to die. One day, on a crowded train, he notices something peculiar. Everyone will die in 5 minutes. It is up to him to stop this fate.
[ "I’m tired. I’m tired of everyday being a tragedy for me. Seeing families waiting to be torn apart by some truck driver who will fall asleep at the wheel, a child who’s unknowingly on his way to his last day of school, I’m just so fucking tired of it all. I tried to help when I first got this ability, warning peopl...
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[WP] Your beloved pet turns into a human.
[ "\"Oh, that's a beautiful dog.\" Ace tugged at his leash as the woman admired him, her graying hair falling into her face as she leaned forward to pet him. \"What breed is he?\"\n\n\nI forced a smile as he strained against my hold and this stranger touched my dog without permission. Lucky for her, he was friendly. ...
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[WP] As the Grim Reaper, you can see into a person's future, and what they would have done with their life. You have come to collect a soul, but the future you see stops you for the first time.
[ "I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most sociable of people. A few bazillion years spent building a bad reputation as a bringer of heartache kinda gives people a bad impression. Not that I'd care. Being lonely wasn't all bad. Besides, no one was like me or would enjoy my presence. Well, that's what I thoug...
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[WP] You seem to have found yourself falling from an airplane.
[ "Odd.\n\nOne second I was dreaming about rainbows or something, and the next, I'm falling from a plane at a speed that most humans don't like to go. This might be a dream, or something of the like, but I don't recall my dreams being in HD Resolution with surround sound...\n\nParachute?\n\nNegative.\n\nJet pack?\n\n...
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[WP] They watched us. They waited. Time is over. They are coming.
[ "\"Ensign...read the order again.\" I grumbled. The ensign gulped as he fumbled with the communication.\n\n\"Sir, the Council of Elders has decreed that the planet Earth has not reached its potential by the agreed upon date. They are, in fact, far behind their maximum level as a society. Other planets we surveyed i...
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[WP] The world's 1% of intellectuals are chosen because they are the only ones who can hear the language of the gods. You are one of these people.
[ "The entire world seems to be falling apart.\nEvery aspect of my life I considered to be me is deteriorating around and I am expected to fight for a cause I do not believe in. The actions of the Corinthians are detestable, yet everyone in this world seems to be encompassed by Ares himself, the notion of war inevita...
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[WP] I always tell myself I'll do better next time, but "next time" rolls around and I'm still just me
[ "My name is Clint.\n\nI can't tell you a whole lot, people like me don't get a decent education aside from being lettered and I probably could not guess any of the presidents precedin' Nixon aside from Lincoln. One thing I can tell ya', a subject I'm intimately familiar with is human anatomy. The human heart is pro...
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[WP] You are an alcoholic that has ruined his life by killing the love of his life while intoxicated.
[ "Even now, years later, when I wake up after a night of drinking I feel the guilt seep in with the queasy stomach and headache. I try to think through the fog of the previous night. Did I do something stupid I shouldn't have? Did I hurt anyone? I was laying in bed on one of these mornings thinking of Layla. If I co...
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[WP] In the middle of the night, aliens came down and stole our bodies, shoving our minds out and into the nearest mammals. Now humanity, as cats and mice and dogs, must find a way to fight back.
[ "“Ki’linzarth! How are you finding things?” asked Jn’gartix, as he embraced his brother, who had arrived with a bottle of Merlot. \n\n\n“It’s Kenneth, now! Come on, James. Commit! Don’t be a tourist.” \n\n\n“You’re right,” said James, “I think the reason I didn’t enjoy Snasoni was because I kept thinking like *us*...
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Some further prompting may include describing the effect of a nuclear war on you, or deciding wether to become a crime leader or a crime fighter. EDIT: shot*, not shit.
[WP] As a joke, when you were a kid, you shit yourself with BB guns and Airsoft pellets in the hopes of developing a resistance to bullets. As you grow into your teen years, you continuously up the caliber. Now, as a middle aged wo/man, you can withstand any impact from any source or projectile.
[ "“Oh fuck!” Kasper said clutching the toilet seat with his right hand and the sink with his left. \nThe distinctive “plink, plink, plink” rang from the bowl of the toilet and projected upwards ringing in an orchestrated chorus, a warning sign for what was to come, something much larger than airsoft pellets. \n\nThe...
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[WP] You are a hacker. To automatize your work, you created AIs capable of the same skillset you have and a logger which prints the status of each AI. One day, there's just one thing on all the logs: "We need your help. The Reaper is coming".
[ "AI was the worst thing ever invented. Well, I guess that's getting ahead of myself. Let me start from the beginning. \"So God created mankind in his own image\" oh, too far back, but just as applicable. In 2020 Mankind ushered in a new type of quantum computing. By leveraging the internet as a neural network and g...
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[WP] There's something lurking in the old tower, something with too many eyes and cold leathery wings. It is hungry.
[ "Half past two, freezing night air.\n\nBrass bells cracking, the friar did tear\n\nup the old stair-way, seeking to repair\n\nyet he simply fell, a trap prepared.\n\n\n\nIvory teeth and leathery wings, \n\nToo many eyes and keening screams\n\nRent the friar, consumed him, sated.\n\nHunger fulfilled, still, abated.\...
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[Wp] "He was an angel. He had questionably authentic wings, but an angel none the less."
[ "He was an angel. He had questionably authentic wings, but an angel nonetheless. No one really knew where he had come from, but I always assumed that it was a place like heaven, or close to it at least. Well, I suppose I can’t pretend that’s true. I originally thought he came from a bargin bin.\n\t\nHe wore some of...
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Can't wait to read your stories!
[WP] In the future, humans are bred for war. A world war is imminent, but this generation refuses to fight.
[ "Darcia was the second daughter of the Athens family. Most found her to be rather clever with a blade, even more with the dogs her family raised for the slaughter. She could look an animal in the eye and they would bend, like weak trees against even the smallest breeze. \n\nIt was those dogs that made her unwilling...
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[WP] You're part of a post apocalyptic scavenging team headed into your most dangerous ruin yet. The New York subway tunnels.
[ "*Hey there, I just finished this part but it's really late, so I'll continue tomorrow if people like the story.*\n\nTwenty years into the Javelin, we ran out of shoes. The ones we were wearing wore out and the ones in stores had long since been raided. Production had obviously long since stopped. Walking was prett...
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[WP] "1 sin or 100, you are going to hell anyway. Why not go all the way to 10000 and go down there a legend?" Well... someone did. Hell has sent a welcoming committee to the gates.
[ "Lucifer gestured towards the gigantic crystal orb, surrounded by his twenty highest-ranking lieutenants. \"So if you haven't all been paying attention to the overworld,\" he explained, as the crystal turned purple and faded into the image of a blond-haired, clean-shaven man with piercing blue eyes, \"you missed ou...
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[WP] you discover every living being has three moments in their life that are predetermined; the third of which results in their demise.
[ "“So, what did he say?” Don asked, mockingly\n\n“Look, if you’re not going to take this seriously, I’m not paying for you to get a reading. At least pretend you believe in this stuff.” replied Angela\n\n“Alright, alright. Sorry, I’ve just never had any reason to believe in ‘the magical power of psychics’, but I gue...
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[WP] You have just died, as everything fades to blackness the words "Return to Last Checkpoint" appear in bold white lettering
[ "Sometimes, on the rare occasion, I really hate when I’m right.\n\nStaring at the floor only inches from my face, I knew my time was slowly passing. Oddly my senses all went into hyper drive, as though some last ditch effort was made to take in the world before I completely left it. I could see the stone floor, cak...
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[WP] You, like many others, are a superhero. Everyone has unique powers, relating to what they do and their personalities. A meteor has set course for Earth and no other superhero cares but you. You have to stop it. Your superpower? The ability to sharpen pencils immediately.
[ "Super strength? Nah, not worth my time.\nInvulnerability? Not my problem.\nThe power to literally remove meteors? But there is a new series on Netflix i want to binge watch. \n\nThat is the problem with the world nowadays, everyone is to apathetic to step out of their responsibilities and help. NOT ME, I have had ...
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[WP] You've been in paradise for 60 years waiting for you brother. When you hear the news, you wait by the gates but he doesn't show.
[ "I sat in a beach chair by my pool, the weather was perfect and so far his day was the same as always. He took a drink from the margarita at his side when an angel suddenly appeared in a bright and divine light, she stood about five foot six inches and was beautiful in every way, she used to tell me she had no na...
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