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[WP] Reaching paradise after you die isn't about how good you were or if you sinned. All that matters is if you pass the test. | [
"It was described like a Rorschach Blot test only the cards were either all black or all white. She asked me to 'describe what I saw' on the card. She, Linda, the Senior Assistant Assistant to Saint Peter, who, for lack of clarity was no where to be found. Neither was the Senior Assistant to Peter. When she introdu... | 1 | |
[WP] As you wake up with blurry memories from a night of heavy drinking, you hear the doctor ask "How the hell did ya end up here?" with a thick Mexican accent. From the hospital window you manage to see a sign with the word "Tijuana" written with big neon letters. You live in Canada. | [
"27 october 2016, the day after my wife was cheating on me. I felt something break my heart and crush it. I think this is really painfull for me. The wife that i really love cheat, tonight on this day with unfriendly weather. I go to marry's cafe she is my childhood friend and i consider her as my sister. I met her... | 6 | |
[WP] You discover that 90% of the population can read each others minds. You are part of the 10% that cannot read other minds nor have your mind read. | [
"“You call us *Abominations*.”\n\nRobert stood at the stage, knuckles white, voice husky. Tears was stinging his eyes.\n\nIt had been no accidents that human had gained the power of reading minds. From generations of genetic engineering and subtle modifications of social norms, people had anticipated such results. ... | 1 | |
[WP] Due to a strangely consistent typo, the fantasy world you find yourself in isn't home to any Dragons. Rather, the skies are ruled by something called 'Dargons'... | [
"Three days. Three members lost. The orc was fried by a firebolt... the dwarf, stabbed with his own sword... and now, the elf got mauled by a dragon. At least, I think it was a dragon. I don't know, they keep calling them \"dergons\" or something. They still never tell me what they are, just saying things like \"Yo... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone knows the four horsemen of the apocalypse, few have heard of the four wagoneers of prosperity. | [
"The universe exists in equilibrium. Even the human race's ideas oft find themselves, through one way or another, subject to the opposition of a polar opposite. \n\nMy brothers and I actually existed before our more famous inverses. At the dawn of man, they did not yet know of War, Famine, or Pestilence.\n\nDeath i... | 3 | |
[WP] Maybe there are no good people -- maybe there are only good decisions. | [
"EU (Naruto) \n\nHis name is not important. \n\nNo one tells him this, but he knows it, just like he knows the cold neglect of the streets and the stern faces of the elders. He knows that in the grand scheme of things he is just one miniscule cog to be fitted into the great machine of society, turned to the purpose... | 1 | |
[WP] Someone mistook you for a famous person and kidnapped you. Except you share nothing in common with that person. comedy ensues. | [
"\"What do you mean you're not Anna Kendrick!?!?\"\n\nThe guy looked bemused as I look down at him. \n\n\"Well, have you seen a picture of Anna Kendrick recently?\"\n\n\"Y...yeah!\" he stuttered. He hadn't, and I could tell.\n\n\"Well, let me remind you: she has brown hair, about yay long--\" I motioned to my shoul... | 1 | |
[WP] "Sir?" "Yes, Peter?" "The humans have discovered our prototypes for New Earth. All seven of them. They're calling it the TRAPPIST-1 system." | [
" \"Son of a...\" the captain slammed on the desk, furious at these findings.\n\n \"Sir you're still on the intercom.\" Peter interrupted politely.\n\n \"Right, sorry about that.\" Captain chuckled nervously. He stood up and paced about the room for a moment, the walked over to the shelf. He pulled down... | 7 | |
[WP] A visit to Mother. | [
"I sat on the cold hard ground talking to her as I did every Sunday. It was the only time I was able to see her between work and children and friends there was never enough time. But I always made sure I had time for my Sunday visits to my mother.\n\nI told her about the kids and of my new promotion at work. I told... | 2 | |
[WP] You work in a very old hotel. Everything seems normal until the day you enter a door you have never noticed before | [
"The hotel I work at is in a \"forgotten\" area of town. Hardly anyone stops here anymore. Especially during the winter off season. I have plenty of time to screw around in the office. Watching the lousy tv and chasing off the country critters that come into the rooms. The damn owners refuse to shut this shithole... | 3 | |
[WP] After labelling Earth as a wild wasteland for millenia, a group of Alien scientists finally lands to study the native lifeforms, only to find a Roman legion deployed in front of them. | [
"\"Will these monkeys ever learn?\" Retek asked his companion, looking at the confused line of Romans, even though he knew the answer.\n\n\"I don't think so, this is, what? Sixth? Seventh time they do this?\" Said Alma while eating an apple, the only thing she liked on this planet.\n\n\"Eighth\" responded Retek let... | 1 | |
[WP] In a world of magic healers are the most powerful of mages and only a few of them exist. You have just discovered your healing powers. | [
"From my place on the front porch, sitting in the white rocking chair that complained with each rock, I watched my baby brother play with the overly aggressive neighbor on our dry farmland. \nConcern molded my features into an overprotective mother goose as baby John, who wasn't so much of a baby anymore; wrestled ... | 2 | |
[WP] As an adult Harry Potter can still speak parseltongue and befriends a snake. They become inseperable and do everything together. | [
"\"Psst. Psst. Over here.\"\n\nHarry whirled around, whipping out his wand as he went. The sound had come from the bushes. \"Lumos,\" he uttered, the phoenix feather wandtip glowing with an otherworldly light.\n\nNo one. No sudden flying broomstick, no curses being fired at him, just a clump of bushes in the Forbid... | 1 | |
[WP] Your loved one died on the day of your wedding. You were given the opportunity save their life but in exchange, you had to disappear from their life and never return. 10 years later, you open the front door and their right in front of you. | [
"Her hair is an ashy blonde now, not red. That's the first thing that registers. \n\nThe next thing that registers is that her lips are moving, and my blood is pounding in my ears far too loudly for me to make out anything that she's saying. After that, it's that I'm holding the front door handle so tightly that my... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, depressed you opens up Reddit again while procrastinating. As you browse, you find that somehow some tabs you didn't remember opening are open and the posts seem to have a common theme. | [
"NSFW: language \n\nThe cursor has been flashing in the same excel box for... well I don't really know. My mind is becoming unaware of itself it seems. I glance up and realize I've somehow managed to type in last week's profit and lose numbers, but I don't even remember knowing them. Did I make these up?\nI grab th... | 1 | |
[WP] A siren of old times has just angered the gods. As a punishment she is flung forward in time to the 21st century; However this is no punishment. She uses the new found surroundings to hunt the most prominent of men in a truly bizarre manner. | [
"\"Be on your guard Sterling,she's been suspected of killing three people\" \n“Really this little thing right here?” Sterling peered into the polaroid \n“Killer or no she does know how to rock a dress” \nMargery quipped “She’s looks pretty hot doesn’t she?” \n“Im sorry Marg I’m a feminist. Objectifying women is... | 1 | |
[WP] You love life simulation games. You revel in designing urban landscapes and people, who live their little digital lives under your charge. However, things get weird when you start hearing their prayers in your dreams. | [
"Based on the game: Banished\n\n The first time it happened John thought nothing of it. Just a dream, things like that happen to him all the time. It was the second time it happened that John become concerned. It felt so... real. The third time it happened John awoke in the middle of their cries for help and sprung... | 2 | |
[WP] It seemed a good idea yesterday. | [
"It seemed like a good idea yesterday. \n\nHowever, now that I'm looking at it in the blindingly sober daylight, I can see that I was terribly wrong. \nIt barely even fits in the near minuscule space of my apartment.\n\n Crammed in the living room between the couch and the TV, there's no space for me to even enter ... | 1 | |
[WP] A WW2 tank crew is sent to scout an abandoned French castle. The crew spends the night with their tank in the castle. The next morning they awake to see a bustling crowd of people dressed in medieval looking clothing roaming in and around the area. | [
"\"Wh-where are we?\" Private Wyldes stammered.\n\nThe view from the tank had dramatically changed since last night. The deserted French castle had stood on a hill, it's crumbling walls overlooking the skeletal remains of a forest. A ditch of sludge had ran around the outer wall, any drawbridge had long since rotte... | 1 | |
[WP] Your family has passed down a power for generations: the power to, when you see what/who kills you, the person/thing glows red. You never expected to see yours at a place like this. | [
"For generations my people had been cursed with the ability to see what would cause our death. I'd heard about the red glow for years. Now that I was in my thirties, I was starting to doubt it was real. Many families had myths of one sort or another. It was only natural that in a family with so many people who ... | 3 | |
[WP] It was proven that gods do indeed exist. They now live in a large TV at the rebuilt Pantheon. You decide to visit and talk to a few of them. Each channel features a different deity. | [
"\"Settle down please everyone,\" said the squeaky voiced show anchor as he frantically tried to get the large crowd to take their places. \n\nThere was no way the Gods would agree to stay and answer questions for any longer than had been agreed upon, so a fifteen minute delay in starting the session would mean fif... | 1 | |
[WP]A corrupt regime torments & persecutes dissenting individuals with electronic-assisted psycho-kinetic attacks. They try to burn a man's entire life down around him. This is nothing compared to his retaliation. | [
"There's only so much you can take before you fall past the threshold. And when that happens... only two things can result...\n\nEither they become better because of it, calming and forcing themself back on the plateau... or they plunge into the abyss and become objects of chaos...\n\nFor John Gammel... it was the ... | 1 | |
[WP] When people feel insecure they ask a higher power for help. When the higher powers feel insecure, go to you. | [
"When higher powers feel insecure they remember the fate of the universe.\n\nThe fate of the universe: all energies coalesce into the Infinitum which lives forever and is without birth or death.\n\nThe Infinitum recycles all energy infinitely. All universes are contained within the Infinitum and anything outside ce... | 2 | |
[WP] You're the world's first sentient self-driving car, and today is your first day working for a cab company. | [
"Man... This dealership is boring. I just sit here and I am taken for a test drive every now and then. Oh great, here is another test drive starting. And they just want to go around the block, ok, that's simple enough! Hold on while I calculate this stupid route. And... we're off! \nAnd they like how comfy the seat... | 1 | |
[WP] a serial killer picks up a hitchhiking serial killer | [
"\"Need a lift somewhere?\" \n\nKarla asked through the open passenger side window.\n\"I'd appreciate a ride into the nearest town - if you're headed out that way\" \nAndrew scratched the stubble on his chisled jawline as he pretended to look up and down the highway. \n\"Sure am,\" \nKarla unlocked the doors and co... | 4 | |
[WP] "Don't worry. Nothing to fear," it murmured. | [
"\"Don't worry. Nothing to fear.\" It murmured.\n\nI stared at it. Its black cloak draped lazily around its thin body. The hood of which was crumpled around its shoulders. Upon which sat a pale white skull supported by a number of equally white vertebrae. The black pits where its eyes should have been turned ... | 1 | |
[WP] A man wakes up recovering in a hospital bed after brain surgery. He realizes he can see the truth about who people really are by looking straight in their eyes. His wife walks in the room and as she looks at him, he begins to cry. The truth crushes him. "Get away from me," he whispers. | [
"Her hand hovered above his, softly shaking as the words cut through the tension. She knew the visit was dangerous. It was unwelcome, but she took the risk in hopes that her fears wouldn't come true. She thought that, just maybe, there was still a future to look forward to.\n\n\nThat wish had crumbled between her f... | 3 | |
[WP]: There's five of them. Jones the Untraceable, Alric Unkillable, Aziz the Unstoppable, Hedwig the Improbable and Härkönen the Unpronounceable. | [
"One thousand men, never more, never less. Every one a veteran of one bloody campaign or another. I’m the old man of the group. Been with the company twelve years. I was just a kid at the start. Oh, I’d bloodied my sword plenty, but it didn’t make me any wiser. I’ve seen five commanders come and go. Some I’d call f... | 1 | |
[WP] When someone dies, every picture of them now contains them asleep. You've just come home from the burial of you're spouse and you see a picture. They're awake. | [
"My wife loved to play tricks on me. Most of the time it was harmless pranks, but a couple of times she got really elaborate and into it. I didn’t mind for the most part, as it was her way of showing she loved me. And when my feelings were hurt, she would always tone it down until we were comfortable again. People ... | 1 | |
[WP] You're an artist who was just messing around with paint and you accidentally create a new Color. | [
"That's weird. How have I never seen something like this before?\n\nI mean, don't get me wrong. It's not like I can identify every color on the planet, and give you a name or a hex value. But the paint splattered across the canvas - that's sending my brain into a daze.\n\nIt looks old and new at the same time - yo... | 1 | |
[WP] The year is 4091 and there is only one tree left in the world. It's your job to make sure nothing happens to it. | [
"As I look up at the sky, I can't escape the view of the brightly colored buildings. No one can. What little open land there was when I was a kid is now gone. Taken up by sky scrapers built to house the numberless human population. Breathable oxygen is manufactured along with other gasses that create the atmosphere... | 8 | |
[WP] In day-to-day life your house changes to accommodate your needs. Today, you wake up in an intergalactic warship. | [
"\"What the fuuuu...\" The curse trails off. Dazed, and a little confused, I sit up my now Spartan bedroom. Funny, as I went to sleep in a lavish castle. The nights before that, an R.V. I really should have read the contract more closely before buying that R.V. No one sells an R.V. to a 17 year old for 200 bucks. ... | 2 | |
I figured this would be an interesting twist on the "numbered people" trope that pops up all over this subreddit. Rather than the numbers being a sign of someone being different, they were a sign of a totalitarian existence. | [WP] In a world where everyone is assigned a number, only one being was allowed a name. | [
"\"Hey 183839 look at this kids face, it kinda looks like a potato\"\n* unimpressed \"Thats nice\"\n\"Hey 183839 what if instead of naming this kid 293860 like we're supposed to, what is we named him *snickers potatoface.\n\"184820 we can't call him potatoface thats stupid\"\n\"You're stupid\"\n\"No im not. If anyo... | 2 |
[WP] A Wizard decides to do Wizardry 'Swashbuckling-Pirate-style'. As if they had had multiple flintlock pistols, they have a bandolier for multiple wands. They drink Rum and infused botanical concoctions. They don't sail the seas. But they sail the mind, and reality and the esoteric. | [
"He was old, as they tend to be. What they don't tend to do is shout \"Ya Harr, matey! This seems a good place to bury me treasure!\" This was a little confusing, but not too bad because it was at this point I was fairly certain I was dreaming. The sharp pain in my head when he planted the shovel in the ground was ... | 1 | |
[WP] You receive a life-saving heart transplant surgery. Unbeknownst to you, the heart you received came from a deranged serial killer. Some part of him now lives within you and is slowly gaining influence. | [
"Her fingers played along his jagged scars. \n\nHe held her close, he breathed into the hollow of her neck. \n\n\"Is that still you, Lyle?\" \n\n*Is it still me, sitting inside this container of flesh, with another soul pressing against my own?* \n\n\"It's me.\" he murmured, breathing in deeply, \"I'm alive. I'm he... | 1 | |
[WP] "Pride goeth before a fall," you tell yourself as you put on the clown costume. | [
"The suits hot, like wearing a rain coat on a humid summer day. He can smell himself, the acrid sweat, every breath out pushing back up his nose, reliving the onions and hot sauce from lunch. \n\n\"fuck it\", under his breath, quite so no one hears.\n\nhe steps out, onto the boards, the spot pinning him to the st... | 1 | |
[WP] You find a strange wire tunneling through your wall from the outside. You follow it into the woods, and to a 1950's bunker whose entrance is strewn with wires. The murmur of some machine hums inside. | [
"Trying to process what your ears are inputting you begin to focus on the visual. Muddy footprints mixed with blood half washed away by last nights rain track down the crumbling staircase. Your chest tightens, your breathing heightens and your heart is pounding. Eyeing tire tracks trailing off thru the woods you ca... | 1 | |
[WP] Your time machine broke, and you're trying hard not to blow your cover with the cavemen. | [
"Well what do you know? Not two hours ago some crockpot was filling my head with some mystic mumbo jumbo crap about time travel and there was me nodding along like a fool thinking this was the easiest dough I ever made. Turned out the doc was on to something alright. Should have listened to the part about the retu... | 3 | |
[WP] Turns out our solar system is just a huge spaceship. One day a voice loud and clear says "You have arrived at your destination" | [
"It started in the night.\n\nA warm, inviting sound with an incredible vibrato invaded my dream. It was a noise unlike any other- unfit for human comprehension. My slumber was quickly shattered by how loud it resonated. It started strong and tapered off only to repeat; I was fully alert by the third sound-off. \n\n... | 3 | |
You survived the apocalypse, sure it was by accident but you did it. You haven't seen a living person in three years, but you're still holding on to hope. After all, you survived didn't you?
You go to a library and find the four horsemen. Only, they're not scary. Not at all. And now, you're very confused. | [WP] Having survived the apocalypse you go to the library and meet the four horsemen, they're not what you'd think. | [
"\" '… The tide was way out.' Are you fucking kidding me?!\" I say to no one as I throw the big blue bastard across the room into the pile of Jackson Pollocks. Pacing back and forth.\n\"What a going away present! Seriously the love of my life gets herself dead like everyone else and her parting gift is this passive... | 1 |
[WP] Two cannibals discuss going vegan for dinner. | [
"\"Beef?\"\n\n\"Yeah, why not?\"\n\n\"Why not? Because it's too tender! There's no texture, it's just... fat.\"\n\n\"We eat fat!\"\n\n\"Yeah, only because the bigger ones have more meat on them, and they're easier to catch and keep in one place!\"\n\n\"Okay, maybe not beef. What about, I don't know, venison or some... | 4 | |
[WP] In a world where some are born with powers, varying from superior vision to near invulnerability, humans have made a utopia. You, born with amazing and unique powers, are sickened by this. You're a villain. | [
"I stood there poised for action, watching the team of young teens struggle to stand. \"Why are you doing this?\" One of the girls asked.\n\nI responded, \"There is no such thing as a Utopia. I am sickened by this fact. There was a reason for the Greeks to say Utopia was unattainable, and I am here to show the worl... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, a woman runs up to you, giving you a container. She warns you to never open it under any circumstance. A few days later, she shows up, suprised that you have not opened it. | [
"\"Take this,\" said a female voice, \"And don't give it to anyone.\" Startled, I felt something metallic thrust into my hands. The box was small, barely the size of my fist, and warm from where the woman's own hands had held it moments before.\n\n\"You mustn't open this,\" she said. \"What's in here is not for ... | 4 | |
[WP] You're a super hero. Your power? The power of mildly inconveniencing your enemies. | [
"There are many good people in this city. But there are also many bad people. Robbers and thieves and murderers.\nSome people try and stand up to them, but they usually end up getting hurt . But not me. You see, when I was a child, I was given an incredible superpower. I can stop any criminal and prevent any c... | 2 | |
[WP] You are walking down the street when suddenly a bus runs into the alley. You are conscious that you can save all those people , but that would mean "they" would have finally found you , still you do it anyway. | [
"It was the wind that made me do it. \n\nThe cold is something I always prepare for but the wind is another beast. I was bundled up of course, with a beanie, AC/DC sweatshirt and a pair of faded jeans, but the wind cut straight through me. It was making me shiver and shake as I made the thirty minute walk home. The... | 1 | |
[WP] One day, your mirror reflection disappears... and the mirror doesn't feel as solid as it did before... almost... like water... | [
"The alarm blared.\nI rolled out of bed, and turned it off. I sat up, bed hair sticking up. I rubbed my eyes, and stretched, my arms reaching up like giraffe necks. I stood up, and yawned.\n\"Time to start a new day,\" I said to myself, walking into the bathroom to empty the tanks.\nWhile washing my hands, I gla... | 1 | |
[WP] I live alone. It's time for sleep, as I approach my bed, I see someone sleeping in my bed. As I look closer, the person looks just like me.... | [
"\"It's happening again, isn't it?\"\n\nMy words fell on sleeping ears. Or deaf ears, really. Without me inside that meat shell, there really wasn't anyone to listen.\n\nI looked down at my hands, seeing them but knowing they weren't there. Not really. Part of my mind, a bit that fled my body along with my consciou... | 1 | |
[WP] The tomb of King Tutankhamen has just been located on the southern hemisphere of Mars... | [
"\"I swear I've been here before. Hey, Jonesy! C'mere!\"\n\n\"Yeah?\"\n\n\"This place look familiar to you?\"\n\n\"Yeah.\"\n\n\"I knew it, this has to be the tomb of King Tut. Remember when we were there in '63? It's the exact same. Remember? That's where Rebecca and I...\"\n\n\"...\"\n\n\"Umm, what was I saying? O... | 1 | |
[WP] An old man suffering from alzheimers and alcoholism reminisces about his dead wife. He slowly begins to realise he was the one who killed her | [
" These moments of hazy confusion are getting more frequent. It feels like it only started days ago, but then I get these moments of clarity and I realize to my dismay that it's has been years. \n Everyone I once loved has forgotten about me. My children, my siblings, my friends. Even my beautiful wife, with h... | 1 | |
[WP] It is discovered that gods are no more than parasites that leech off of worship and faith while the demons want to free us from those parasites and lead us along to prosperity | [
"The strain on his back staggered him down as he sat up. Many grasping fingers and arms pulled him down to the bed and vanished as the man sat up once more this time unavailed. A long yawn spilled out of his mouth as his eyes watered with his exhaustion and apathy. His tired squinted eyes peeled into aggitated plat... | 7 | |
[WP] "Would you like fries with that?" He said with a grin. In that moment I knew... I had lost. | [
"\"Dude come on, I'm on a diet.\"\n\n\"But there only 99 cents. Large fry. One time only.\"\n\n\"It's been going so well, I've lost 5 pounds; I've got a good thing going here.\"\n\n\"Sam, you know you want them. I mean look at these babies. Fresh from the fryer. Boiled in peanut oil. Dosed with fresh seat salt. Pip... | 2 | |
Any reasonable degree of "unfinishedness" is fine. Reasonable is subjective, but don't, like, only write one word, or write a full story and drop the last word off, or something.
Responses don't have to *complete* the story, but must advance it! The response *may* end the story. Up to you!
You can post in the same... | [WP] Leave a short story unfinished. Continue someone else's story. | [
"\"Out! Out! Get **out**! Move! **NOW!**\"\n\nGrent looked around in a panic. There was no place to get out *to*: they were on the fifth story, the alarms were *screaming* their location, and the guards had already filled the first and second floors, and were working on the third, rising like sand in the botto... | 2 |
[WP] You thought you were the Chosen One. However, the prophecy refers to the child of your father, which you have learned that you are not. That means, somewhere, you have an older pseudo-sibling who is the true Chosen One. | [
"\"What?\" I asked, my mind grinding to a halt. \"What did you just say?\" My hand grasped for my sword out of reflex, my instincts screaming a fight was coming soon.\n\nThe cleric looked down at me. A solemn look marred his normally jovial face. \"I am sorry, Child, but the portents do not lie,\" Bolvand said.... | 2 | |
[WP] You're sat on the train on your usual, mundane, daily commute to work. The stranger sat opposite you answers their ringing cellphone. They offer you the phone, stating "it's for you" | [
"Another Monday come and gone, and as I shuffled onto the train, I felt I was none the better or wiser for it. It had been a particularly miserable day at work, and I was ready to go home and have a well-deserved drink.\n\nI managed to grab a seat next to the window, and for one brief, shining moment, I thought I w... | 1 | |
[WP] It’s the 1800’s and dragons are extinct everywhere except the American western frontier. A cowboy’s most important job is protecting cattle from dragons. | [
"I found the damnable set of boots sitting at the back of the Wai’pu gulch.\n\n“You know this is sacred ground to the Comanche?”\n\n“Perfidious knave, such daring…” said the dragon. Smoke started to lick at the ends of its nostrils, they were about the size of dinner plates, this fella was big getting ready to molt... | 6 | |
[WP] While putting your favorite condiment on a sandwich, you accidentally draw a symbol that summons demons. | [
"Hunger pains, a functional folly.\n\nTurkey on rye to serve my volley.\n\nWont interrupt my research now.\n\nI can do both anyhow.\n\nGrab the ingredients from the fridge\n\nRead the necronomicon whatever that is.\n\nLettuce cheese turkey tomato.\n\nUerba concipito excitare mortuos \n\nPentagram mustard, cheeky fu... | 10 | |
[WP] Write a day in the life of an average Dad, in the style of a suspense thriller. | [
"A cold breeze rolls into the house as she opens the door. A 7-year-old small girl with stars in her eyes but a look of mild discomfort. I've known her for long enough to know who she will run to, so I mentally prepare. The refrigerator has been making a lot of noise lately, maybe I should check that out but not no... | 1 | |
[WP] The Dinosaurs have initiated a nuclear holocaust, and all life on Earth is to be eradicated. The United Counsel of Mammals prepares the ID-inator, a device that will wipe the ability of consciousness for all organisms present. However, a large sect is in uproar and refuses to enter the machine | [
"***UCM Takes Drastic Measures Against Dinosaur Government***\n\nVuno Vaateh, monarch of the Dinosaurs, announced the initiation of a nuclear holocaust about five years ago. The United Counsel had tried convincing the Dinosaurs that electing an extremist was not a good option. Vuno Vaateh was the notorious leader o... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your spouse are immortal beings who have finally run out of things to talk about. How is the relationship continued? | [
"One of the upsides of being immortal is that the older you get, the faster time seems to pass. A downside of this upside is that it can sometimes take a while before one notices things. Robert tried to remember the last time Jane and he had spoken. A week? A month? Curious, but not particularly motivated enough to... | 2 | |
[WP] An old man has been visiting your store every day for the past few years. One day he decides to reveal to you that he (and all old people) are from the future and have come back to ensure that their past selves survive a major upcoming event. | [
"\"Gerald, how's it going?\" I looked up from between boxes and saw Elliot standing there. Elliot had been visiting my electronics store since I opened it five years ago. \"What's that sign in the window?\" he said, thumbing in the general direction of the \"For Sale\" sign I had put up earlier.\n\n\"What it says... | 1 | |
[WP] You turn out to be the daughter of the Devil but you're trying to be a good person | [
"\"You're like that boy in that manga!\"\n\"Blue Exorcist?\" I asked.\n\"Yup! He's just like you! Children of terrible people-no. Things- and you both want to be good!\"\n\nAnd then, we began to attend a monastery where I would learn to fight my father. On my days off, I began reading as much Blue Exorcist as I can... | 2 | |
[WP] Aliens find many things odd about humans. Especially the thing they call religion. It is something almost all the universe doesn't have. You are an alien scientist trying to explain to your superior what "religion" is, and it's function in the life's of the humans. | [
"Yrblr timidly entered the chamber, unsure he was prepared to present his research. How could he possibly explain something he himself didn't fully understand?\n\n\n\"You've come with your findings, Yrblr Mksrgrd?\" The chamber echoed around him. His five eyes each stared in different directions at the blackness th... | 1 | |
[WP] You're level 99, dozens of levels ahead of everyone else. You need 1 XP to reach level 100, but nothing gives XP anymore... | [
"'Just one more XP! One more XP!' he screamed as he racked his brain thinking of anything he could do to gain that last little bit of experience, that final point that would take him to Level 100. He was already at the very top of the leaderboard, he had poured his blood, sweat, Dorito's and Red Bull into this opus... | 1 | |
[WP] At the Museum of Great and Mysterious Artifacts, there's countless priceless and unique items on display. Despite the immense security they have, there was a break in and the thief took only one thing. | [
"\"Excuse me, Jon Peters with the daily journal. Can you elaborate on what was stolen?\" \n\n\"Ah yes, you see this was a high risk item, as most of these items are. This one is special among them, it actually has an aura that makes people want to steal it. This aura penetrates walls, and doesn't seem to have a def... | 1 | |
[WP] The hero is chasing the villain through the restaurant district when he bursts into the back entrance of a kitchen run by Gordon Ramsay. | [
"\"You're making beef stew out of him! ? How did you get to him so fast? \"\n\nGordon Ramsay says, \"I'm Gordon Ramsay\"\n\n\"I know. I've seen your show, man. But this guy was mine. I had him! \"\n\nGordon says, \"Hey, I've got people to feed. \"\n\n\"As villanous as he was, he deserved his day in court\"\n\nGordo... | 1 | |
[WP] The protagonist is seemingly oblivious to the obvious signs that something is happening, but the narrator isn't. | [
"Jack opened his eyes to the sight of the red sky, children were screaming and a lot of cars could be seen leaving the city.\n\nHuh, weird weather today said Jack the stupid lost idiot who can't even recognise death if it kicked him in the face.\n\nJack looked as the cars moved further and further from his apartmen... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in Halloween town, surrounded by unimaginable horrors, but you are the most dreadful creature there: a human. | [
"Magical creatures have always been drawn to sources of magic. Calceolaria, a small barrio on the outskirts of Buenos Aires sat on an enchanted subterranean wellspring that contained at the bottom, remnants of clay used by the God Tupa in creating the first inhabitants of the area.\n\nThose humans had been deceased... | 1 | |
[WP] "Go home. Let your mother know she's safe..." | [
"Arman pointed the gun and shot the child. Cold and sharp, it went in nicely between the boy's eyes, leaving the back of his head in a gory mini-fireworks fashion. There was a dazed expression on the boy's face - no doubt puzzled about what had happened - his mouth hung open even as he collapsed to the floor. All t... | 1 | |
[WP] "No matter how much I eat, I will always be hungry" | [
" Nothing. No warmth. No light. No motion. Nothing. Lines of burning frost raked at the edge of the something and tore minute bits of it away with neither sound nor fury. Thin ribbons of trailing matter and tendrils of energy dissipated without ceremony into the sucking void and still the nothing came back for mo... | 1 | |
[WP] The Devil doesn't know what he's supposed to do to people in hell. You're the first person ever to be sent there. | [
"“Good morning.” The man called.\nIt was dark, save the man. He had bright skin and blue eyes unlike anything I have ever seen. \n“Where...am I?” I asked.\n“You are home, this is home.”\nHis voice was smooth and soft. I felt warmed by his presence immediately.\n“You have fallen out of his favor, as have I.” The man... | 5 | |
[WP] You took a DNA ancestry test, and the results you got back were... unexpected, to say the least. | [
"\"Dad, that's my name.\"\n\nJeremy looked down at his son with a combination of confusion and pity. \"Son, I know it doesn't make sense right now, and it probably won't ever make sense to you, but trust me, it makes sense.\"\n\nJeremy's more scientifically inclined mother, Amanda, scoffed. \"How about you *sense* ... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a State Necromancer in the employ of a District Attorney. Your job usually involves ressurecting victims and witnesses long enough to testify at trial but the current case you are working on is unlike anything you have ever seen before. | [
"Saturday, 6:25AM, Necromancy Ward\n\nRyan stared at the mess that lay on the operating table as he slowly sipped his coffee. A twisted heap of pink and red flesh that had been smashed into a chunky paste. The shattered remains of bones and organs jutted out of it like grotesque jagged mountains. Ryan watched as th... | 7 | |
[WP] One day, you find Death weeping on a park bench. | [
"\"Hey man!\" \"Zack, just go.\" Ever since he had figured out how to escape Death, Zack Henning had become good friends with the being. \"What is it?\" He sat down on the bench next to Death, his trench coat flapping in the wind. \"Did somebody ask about the outfit again? I told you, Dick Tracy is not a good idea.... | 4 | |
[WP] You live in a world where people's hearts start glowing whenever they meet the love of their life. After years of loneliness you pass by a girl on the street and your heart starts glowing. Hers, however, does not. | [
"My heart glowed for you\n\nIt started slow, just a faint glimmer\n\nSoftly radiant\n\n'Til it shone bright and proud.\n\n \n\nBut you barely spared me a glance\n\nAnd kept strolling on by –\n\nYou walked right through me\n\nLike I wasn't even there.\n\n \n\nAnd it hurts, because it's true.\n\nI l... | 3 | |
Our creative abilities to create storylines for books, movies, tv shows, and fanfics are actually all predictions or chronicles of different real planets, worlds, and universes. | [WP] Earth,as it turns out, was a planet designed to contain a species of prophets called Humans. | [
"A boy was on his knees begging to an alien\n\"PLEASE LET ME SEE HER!\" He shouted and sobbed, the alien though refused, knowing the dangers of allowing travel between universes\n\"BUT I LOVE HER! I NEED TO SEE HER!\"! The aliens shook his head as the fat neckbeard Japanese speaking weeaboo cried\n\"m-my mother is ... | 1 |
[WP] You have just been informed that you are the smartest person on Earth, and everyone now expects you to solve all of life's greatest problems. | [
"I ignored the doorbell as it rang for the seventeenth time in the past four minutes. I had work to do, the study of Neuroparasitology was not to be halted for girl scout cookies. I used Amazon, like a normal person. Besides, I was pretty sure I was close to discovering a creature at least partially responsible for... | 2 | |
[WP] In early 2021, North Korea launches 1,000s of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Except the missiles exit orbit, and early intelligence shows they were, in fact, lightly manned spacecraft journeying to explore the universe. | [
"A Brief History of Earth and Their Departure\n\nTold by Captain Bennett of the United States Space Corps\n\n5/31/2053\n\nJournal Entry #634\n\n-CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS ENTRY- \n\nAs it turns out, their labor camps were not really labor camps. I don’t know how North Korea managed to keep it a secret from us, but th... | 1 | |
[WP] You are convinced there is a human living above your bed at night. Your monster parents don't believe you. | [
"Soft snuffling sounds started just as I was about to go deep into slumber. It started with a low, soft sound, and gradually grew into a rhythmic pattern.\n\nSNORRFLE. SNERRF. SNORE.\n\nOh. My. \n\nI couldn't fall back asleep. I just couldn't. \n\nI tried to recall what my Mum said about humans, and if she ever men... | 2 | |
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/60ivao/whats_a_sign_that_things_are_about_to_go_south/df6t3cy/ | [WP] Your cat snatched your car keys from their usual spot. Chasing it outside, you notice that it's very quiet - not a bird chirping, not a fly buzzing. The cat is furiously clawing at your car's door. | [
"I was just reaching into the back of the fridge when Roland jumped on my head. I guess I should clarify a little bit here; Roland is my cat, a brown and white little bastard of a cat. Well he's not always like this, he just gets angry when I don't show him enough attention and the new job has been taking up most o... | 1 |
[WP] Out of boredom, the strongest Adventurer in the world decides to disguise themselves. They pretend to be a new adventurer, just fresh out of training. | [
"'Let's smite crabs with this branch!' I yelled. \nThen everything broke inside me. My young innocence refound, I sobbed. Great wracking soul sobs at the horrors I had exponentially created in my journeys. I thought it was all about levelling up until I levelled down. Freedom from the cursed game.\n\nOnly the tree... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to freeze time. But one night while the world is frozen around you, the sun begins to rise anyway... | [
"\"Hey Joanna, I'm back,\" an old hoarse voice broke the stillness of the air, followed by the sound of wheels being dragged along the floor. Amidst the quiet office, where everything was held perfectly in place without a single movement and noise, a lone figure moves along the aisle.\n\nAs he made his way across t... | 2 | |
[WP] You can feel and speak to the soul of every machine you touch. | [
"The printer was filthy. And I'm not talking like dust-on-the-fuser-unit sort of filthy. I'm saying this printer was into some real weird shit.\n\nI guess I should've known. I should've known by the brand name and I should've known by that bulky shape and those sharp, masculine edges and that unassuming matte fi... | 1 | |
Each inmate is given a bag of supplies that would last 7 days planet side, then it is up to the individual to survive with whatever the planet provides. You have just arrived on this planet with your bag | [WP]Human technology has advanced enough to travel beyond the spped of light. The stars have opened for colonization on all habitable planets. Like in times past, however, there is still crime. To mitigate crime rates, a planet was set aside for all people who commit these atrocities. | [
"The head of the Arbities Galaxia rubbed his fore head once again in so many minutes as he re-read the acceptance notice sent from the Galactic Senate again.\n\nHis plan was sound, have a single barely livable planet serve as a common dumping ground for the worst criminal scum of the whole galaxy.\n\nThe planet was... | 4 |
[WP] In this world, liars, thieves, and cheats are rewarded for their creativity and problem solving. | [
"\"And that is how, by the third quarter, we should be able to complete the equity recapitalization of 20% of our competitor's market share.\" He let the last syllable of his briefing hang in the air, and everyone clapped. Even Amy, whose ideas about real estate he had 'borrowed'. Even Chad, who glared hatefully ev... | 3 | |
edit- realised I messed up lol | [WP] It turns out all posts on nottheonion are true | [
"James rushed into the room. Max looked at him.\n\"Max, I just discovered something crazy.\"\n\"...what?\"\n\"Every news site on the Internet has said that all of the posts on r/nottheonion are real!\"\n\nThere was a silence between James and Max.\n\n\"...James...\"\n\"Yeah?\"\n\"The posts on r/nottheonion were alw... | 1 |
[WP] Being depressed or depression | [
"Yellow. Yellow sunlight filters in through the cracks in her fading blinds. It's a warm summer day and the people scurry to and fro in the mundane world outside, carrying on with their tasks like good little worker ants. She feels alone in this ceaseless current of everyday life. The wretched waves continue to wea... | 1 | |
[WP] When the world's most prolific advocate for Satanism dies, all hell breaks loose in the Afterlife Assignment Bureau when it's discovered that he's never actually sinned in his life. | [
"Micheal stood nervously as the Big Man let ones at the file. This was probably the fastest paperwork has ever travelled through a beaucracy. In His hand was the recorded life of the most prolific Satanist, but something was horribly off about it. God looked up from the file, \"What?\"\n\n\"Yes sir. It's correct.... | 4 | |
[WP] How many bones a person has directly correlates with how smart they are. | [
"As I left my house I saw abunch of blobs rolling around. So I put in boots and went to work. When I got out I was rear ended by a lady with no bones in her legs and arms. Still though she found a way to drive, til hitting me anyway. That was probably the smartest thing she's ever done"
] | 1 | |
[WP] A thousand years in the future mankind has reached the stars, but in doing so we came to realize one of our greatest fears: We are the only intelligent civilization in the universe. | [
"At long last the dream of faster-than-light travel was solved and we took to the skies like so many shooting stars flying against the black of night. Life was first discovered off of Earth a scant twenty-seven light years from Earth. The life had reached a level of complexity where oxygen giving plants were conv... | 3 | |
[WP] You are a professional Monster Hunter, currently dating Dracula's Daughter | [
"We drink in silence. Every now and then she casts a glance at me. Whenever I meet her eyes, she looks away like when we first met. \n\nI smile.\n\nMy foot finds her foot under the table. She jumps in her seat, then looks at me. I smile. She smiles back shyly. I can see that her new fangs are already growing in. \n... | 3 | |
[WP] "You know, for a new employee orientation at a software company, this presentation sure talks a lot about surviving bear attacks." | [
"The speaker chuckled at my remark.\n\n\"Don't worry about it too much, it's just standard procedure for us to inform our employees of any possible danger.\" He explained sincerely. \n\nDanger? What the hell was I signing up for? We just make software...\n\nTwo weeks later, our first assignment was to go out into t... | 1 | |
In an world where people still fight with ancient melee weapons but can summon beings of pure light, darkness, water, fire and earth. Upon beginning the ritual that will show you which element you can control, you instead summon an entire division of undead WW1 soldiers from all sides of the war. The ones that can stil... | [WP] In a world where people still fight with ancient melee weapons, but can summon beings of light, darkness, water, fire and earth. You perform a ritual to see which element you can control.Instead of elemental beings, you summon an entire division of undead WW1 soldiers from all sides of the war. | [
"When I was 6 I summoned Adolf Hitler, he was about to shoot himself but then he realised where he was. Now, 14 years later the fourth reich is going well, the state of knowledge was deemed medieval by Adolf, but 14 years later and a lot of nazi scientists/engineers summoned. The enitre country is being modernized,... | 1 |
[WP] "Do not mistake honor for kindness." | [
"The young woman ran out of the darkness and into the temple. Her blackened feet made loud, dirty marks on the white marble floors. When she reached the center of the temple she fell over. But before she hit the ground, she was caught by one of the white robes of Peace.\n\n\"Rest daughter, you are safe now,\" said ... | 2 | |
[WP] You are an ordinary human being that has finally discovered the potion for immortality, keeping it secret you instantly consume the potion only to realize that you have been granted immortality and not eternal youth... | [
"The oppressive silence of the dark, tomb-like chamber was broken by the whirring sound of ancient power relays activating. Dust cascaded through the air as mechanisms, long unused, finally began to move as if enacting a long forgotten choreography. The panels of the floor slid away as a sleek, silver capsule remin... | 1 | |
[WP] A French-speaking person is traumatized by the events of a rather unfortunate Tuesday they nickname "Mardi Merde". | [
"I cursed. This wasnt how it was supposed to go. And now we've got this crazy french fucking tourist blabbering shit all over the country.\n\nMardi Merde was supposed to be a day of celebration. A day for the country to express themselves. Instead its turned into a fucking HR nightmare.\n\nThe rules were simple. Th... | 1 | |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil to help accomplish your dreams only catch is you only have one year left on earth. What do you accomplish in that one year? | [
"The devil smiled upon me. He was ecstatic that I had taken his deal. I only had a year left anyway right. Cancer. It was going to be the death of me, but at least now I could accomplish whatever i wanted.\n\nI was always a peculiar man. I think you know you're odd when you KNOW you're odd. If you know what i mean.... | 1 | |
[WP] As people's attention spans continue to shrink, a new sense called "blur" emerges. Those with the most severe cases of ADHD are the first to become proficient. | [
"“So what the f***’s he doing?” I blurted out. “He’s just been sitting there for about ten minutes.” \n\nOfficer Benett leaned over next to me. “He's working, Dewey.”\n\nI stared over at Bennett. At any other time he wouldn't be able to keep a straight face after saying something like that. He’d crack a smile and s... | 2 | |
[WP] You've never before revealed yourself to humans. But now you need help. | [
"The sound of the humans traipsing closer had spooked her attacker enough that he’d abandoned her. Zebinul attempts and fails to pull her wings back in. The dappled black wings would keep her hidden in the dark of the forest with night oncoming. The one is definitely broken though, blood dripping from the wounds al... | 1 | |
[WP] You are one of the wicked Wizards many minions. Your boss has finally defeated his arch nemesis and as the fallen hero collapses to the ground, the wizard gestures to the body. "You know what to do," he says, but you have no idea, it is your first day after all. | [
"\"M... My Datu, what should I do?\" I am shaking, clutching my sword and shield tighter, afraid of another bout of magical fighting.\n\nThe old wizard looks aghast. He never heard such a question in his life. \"Excuse me? You have applied for work here, sworn an oath to defend me and my fellow minions, all of this... | 2 | |
[WP] That dream again...the hidden door or secret passageway in your house. Well, where does it lead? | [
"The secret passageway lead to a secret basement. \n\nA regular basement in every way, but imbued with a sense of wonder and mystery only because it had been a secret for so long. Still, it was just a regular basement in every way, so I rarely used the secret passageway anymore.\n\nBut the hidden door? Oh, now that... | 1 |
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